Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.

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."

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

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.

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

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.

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.