My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off.

The Beatles gave everything they had to give, and more. Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school.

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'.

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

I knew Fred since I was 14 and was first going to the Old Town School, Fred used to work part-time in the store. Every time I wrote a song Fred would turn on his really good high-class tape recorder, reel-to-reel, and record it. So he's got recordings of me on guitar singing all my songs in his apartment long before I ever recorded for a recording company. I never found out what happened to the tapes.