Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
Dwight YoakamThe actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
Dwight YoakamIn retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used to say that they were slowly dying trying to make a living.
Dwight YoakamI listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.
Dwight Yoakam