Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakamis an American singer-songwriter, actor, and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty one albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth23 October 1956
CityPikeville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
I originally developed the Chicken Fries for my fans. They have been so popular we made Buffalo Bites to add to the excitement.
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.
In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.
Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.
At the end of the film Val suggests there may be a way to rejoin the living, when he says, 'Let's see if we're able to live among the living, walk among the living.'
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.