I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

I Walk The Line was my third record.

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.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.