I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

I've always explored various areas of society.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show.

Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love.