He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

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.

When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears

Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.