I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

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.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Next step: take the veil off

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

A drink is shorter than a tale

Rapidity is the essence of war.