I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

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

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

The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.

When I was arrested I was dressed in black