They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

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 get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.