I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

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

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.