“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heave...” — Johnny Cash Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My arms are too short to box with God.”

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

“If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.”

“I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.”

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

“I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.”