For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
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.
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.
If you can hold your listener, hold their attention, and you're sure you know what you're doing, and know that you're communicating - you know, performance is communicating. You've got to communicate. You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut.
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
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!
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.
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.
Johnny's longtime lakeside home in Hendersonville, Tennessee was bought by a corporation owned by the Bee Gees member Barry Gibb in January 2006.
Johnny proposed to his wife, June Carter over thirty times before she accepted.
Johnny's album The Man Comes Around features his cover of the Trent Reznor hit Hurt. Reznor was very angry at first, but after he heard the song, and saw the video for the first time, he was deeply moved, and found Johnny's cover beautiful.
The single Thirteen was written especially for Johhny by 'Goth Rocker' Glenn Danzig.
Johnny was know by his trademark all black attire, and his baritone voice.
Johnny wrote his autobiography in 1975, Man In Black, which is now out of print.
Johnny appeared in a Television Western called A Gun Fight with Kirk Douglas in 1971.
The last song written by Cash, "Like the 309", is featured on his posthumous album, American V: A Hundred Highways.
Johnny recorded a cover of Depeche Mode's single 'Personal Jesus'.
Johnny had recorded entire 'Live' albums at both Folsom and San Quentin Prisons, in front of a receptive audience full of inmates.
Johnny had kicked his drug habit, but then in the early 1980's, was attacked by a male adult ostrich that lived on his farm. He received critical injuries, that led to the use of pain pills. He becam re-addicted, and entered the Betty Ford Clinic, where he met Ozzy Osbourne.
Johnny graduated from Dyess High School in 1950.
Johnny's father, Roy, was the lead for the country band, Dixie Rhythm Ramblers.
At the age of 12, Johnny was profoundly affected by the accidental death of his brother, Jack.
Johnny appeared in the TV commercial (singer) for General Electric aircraft engines in 2003.
Johnny appeared in TV commercials and endorsement for Lionel model trains in the early 1970s.
Johnny was addicted to speed (usually with alcohol or morphine as a chaser) through much of his 20s until 1967, when June Carter Cash and numerous members of his family and friends staged an arduous but successful intervention. It is thought that Cash had an addictive personality which he may have inherited from his genes, as many members of his family were addicts to various vices.
Johnny was a member of the Highway Men with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome recorded several albums together in the 80s & 90s.
Johnny Cash: I did not vote for Mr. Bush, let's leave it at that.
Johnny was ranked #1 of the 40 greatest men in country music.
Johnny suffered from phobias of flying and of snakes.
Johnny to this day is the only person besides Hank Williams to have been inducted into the Songwriters, Country Music, and Rock And Roll Halls of Fame.
Johnny was known as the "Man in Black".
Johnny recorded more than 1,500 songs and they can be found on about 500 albums, counting only American and European releases
Johnny was the youngest person ever chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame and the only person ever selected for the Country and Rock Music Hall of Fame, until this 1998, when Elvis Presley was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Johnny was approximately 6'2" tall.
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