Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

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.

Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

Failure has no friends.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.