It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight.

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.

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

I've been called many things. But I suppose 'the devil' is as good a name as any.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.