We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

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

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.