Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, "Hey Porter," which was on the first record.

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.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world's sweetest cancer.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than she expected.

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Love without limits; reverse the hate.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.