My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

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?