A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

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

if you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!

We would send them all to hell! And hell they would go!

If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I'd be happy to die.

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

Look not down but up!

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.