I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

I wear the black for those who never read.