I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on.

I Walk The Line was my third record.

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.