Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

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

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.