It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money.

What 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?

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.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.