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

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 animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.