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.

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

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

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

We're all in this together if we're in it at all.

[My mother] made the money to send me.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.