Dwight Yoakam Quotes

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I don't care about a social life.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

… splendid isolation

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I just want to be left alone.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.