I don't like it, but I guess things happen that 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.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Ah, that’s just sean nós singing and dancing. Something to do around the pub of an evening.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

Life is what it makes you.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.