A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.