Johnny Cash

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

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.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

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

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.