Cash: "When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!"

Cash: "I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."

Cash: "I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue."

Cash: "How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."

Cash: "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."

Cash: "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."

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

Cash: "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. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

Cash: "People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country."

Cash: "You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. 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."

Cash: "I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television."

Cash: "I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her."

Cash: "I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black."