I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice.

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.

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

I like to read the ending first.

[Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

Love is the best part of life

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.