Quotes from John Carter Cash

In the end, the best music will always rise to the top.

Right before my dad died he was planning to go to New York City for the video music awards that he was nominated for, the MTV music awards. You couldn't tell him he wasn't going to go. It was going to happen. But he wound up having to check into the hospital there, and not too long later he died. But his spirit never gave up - his body did.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

I saw my parents go through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They almost split up.

My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.

Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his own faith.

My father saw a separation between Johnny Cash the entertainer, his business, and the person. The good ole boy. He carried that with him. Or he tried to. Sometimes the lines got crossed.

It was hard to say no to Johnny Cash.

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began playing guitar with him in the road in the late '80s until he retired in 1997. So I traveled the world with them for years, you know, and all around the world and got to meet some great people.

To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.

My parents kept me close to them. I even slept in the same room with them throughout my younger years.

We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and of various color and religion.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father's and mother's journeys.

When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.

I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just happens to be Johnny Cash.

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I listen to all types of music.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.