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.

When you sing, you pray twice.

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

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.