I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in 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.

That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.

The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.