Quotes from Johnny Cash

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

[My mother] made the money to send me.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

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

When I think about country music, I think about America.

All music comes from God.

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.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

My arms are too short to box with God.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.