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

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

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.

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.