“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.” — Dwight Yoakam Quote

“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.”

“Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.”

“I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.”

“When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt.”

“I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.”

“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.”