If 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.

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

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And 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.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.