I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
Dwight YoakamIronically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
Dwight YoakamI needed to get into a nightclub and stand up and present the material that way. I needed to present it live.
Dwight YoakamBut that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
Dwight YoakamI don't really drink, but I've been around a lot of drinking and, at 18, when you start playing in bars, you start to witness the good, the bad and the ugly of alcohol as a source of escape. I wrote about it because I witnessed its use as a means of medicating - a lot of people using it to medicate themselves from hurt.
Dwight Yoakam