You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs. Too much love will kill you every time.

With you, I would walk anywhere.

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

Life and love go on, let the music play.

I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

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."