The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Love while light radiate from your soul.

Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

The less [government] the better.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Imagination is something you do alone.