I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.
Johnny CashWhat I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?
Johnny CashI like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
Johnny CashI knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
Johnny CashMy father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.
Johnny Cash