It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

All pitchers are born pitchers.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.