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

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.