Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need

[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.

I'm thrilled to death with life.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.