Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did "Folsom Prison Blues," which they thought was their song - you know? - and "I Walk The Line," "Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry." And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.