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I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.


I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.


I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'


When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.


The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.


Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.


I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.


I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.


I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.


Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.


I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.


I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.


I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.


If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.


You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.


Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.


If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.


Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.


I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.


If you can't get out of something, get into it.