I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated
Life is rough so you gotta be tough.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-stepgarage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.
It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.
I'm not here to write a song for you, I'm here to help you write a song for yourself.
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.