When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."