When I think about country music, I think about America.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.