At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

I want to wake dead people to live alive". Seriously, I can make you living.

Once out from it, never made a sound. Without sound, you never know who dies and who know so you dare?

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.