There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us, or what they show us in public.

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

Don’t exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

We will always find ourselves in trouble when we get comfortable with things as they are.

...music is the key to life

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit.

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.