Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79

Women who got married got screwed.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.