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

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

[My mother] called [my voice] the gift.

I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself.

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

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.