Understand your man, meditate on it.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

I Walk The Line was my third record.

Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him.

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.