What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?
Johnny CashSam 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.
Johnny CashWhen I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
Johnny Cash