Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black

This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.