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.
Johnny CashThat 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.
Johnny CashA rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
Johnny CashBeneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.
Johnny CashWell, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, โWhat I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do.โ And he said, โIt is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,โ he asks, โwill deliver me from this body of death?โ And he answers for himself and for me, โThrough Jesus Christ the Lord.'
Johnny CashI love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash