There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

It's good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.