A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

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

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

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.

I 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.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."