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

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

“God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.”

“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”

“The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.”

“I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography "Cash" by Johnny Cash.”

“True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times. When love comes out the other side of a fire, it may be scarred forever, but this bruised love is somehow only greater for having survived the pain.”

“I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.”

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

“God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.”

“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”