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

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.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.