Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.

When you sing, you pray twice.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.