You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

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.

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.