Johnny Cash

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

“The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars.”

“Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.”

“It's good to know who hates you, and it is good to be hated by the right people.”

“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell.”

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

“You've got to know your limitations. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.”

“Life and love go on, let the music play.”

“There's no way around grief and loss: you can't sleep it away, you can't run away from it, you can't hide from it.”

“I'm not a showman. I'm a person who has a story to tell.”

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it.”

“That was the thing about the songs, they were my story.”

“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town.”

“If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.”

“I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

“You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.”

“Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.”

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love.”