I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

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.

A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.