When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.

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.

The question is simply, 'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

If you unload your anger on others its your Weakness And if you learn to absorb your anger inside you Then its your Power.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.