When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
Johnny CashIf you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
Johnny CashSam [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.
Johnny CashI had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.
Johnny Cash