My father claimed no political affiliation. He supported Al Gore because he knew him as a human being. He supported Lamar Alexander, who was the governor of Tennessee, who was a Republican. It was based on the individual. He didn't believe in politics. He based his support for someone on their heart and their integrity.
— John Carter Cash
Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.
My father was a humanitarian, but he didn't side one way or another with any certain right's groups. He just believed in people.
My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.
My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.
My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.
My father had a great sense of humor. He wasn't only the Man in Black. He said it himself in the song 'Man in Black:' 'Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day.' He was a man of hope.
I always heard my dad talk about playing music right through till the end. He may have talked in the early 90s about how he was ready to get off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn't part of his make-up.
There's an image that my mother saved my father in 1968 and everything was a bed of roses after that. And that just wasn't true. There were as many struggles in the 1980s and the 1990s as there were in the 1960s.
There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.
I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.
My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.
Life was something Dad enjoyed to the fullest. He put some tough years on himself. He probably would have had another 10 years to live if he hadn't been so hard on himself. But there again, he sure did live while he was here.
My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.
I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.
My mother did a fried vegetable dish called 'stuff.' It's fried potatoes and carrots. Then you add bell peppers, mushrooms and other softer vegetables. At the end you add onion. Then, you steam the dish with hot pepper cheese on the top and it melts down through the dish. It's delicious. It's wonderful.
My father saw a separation between Johnny Cash the entertainer, his business, and the person. The good ole boy. He carried that with him. Or he tried to. Sometimes the lines got crossed.
He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.
My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.
My dad was a unique person.
My mother was creative in the kitchen.
The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.
Nobody sounds like my dad.
My father's special gift? I think for one it was his gentleness. The way that he could offer a heart in any given situation.
My dad lived with pain his whole life.
Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'
I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just happens to be Johnny Cash.
Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.
When I was young, my mother said to me, 'Momma loves her little son.' Now, this tender endearment holds a firm meaning within my life, inside my spirit. It reminds me that in sharing love, it grows that much greater in our hearts.
I try to weigh out the dark and the light. They were both very real aspects of my Dad. To me, the good and the healing and the light outweigh the dark so much, and that's why I focus on the good.
My parents' love for each other lasted throughout their whole life. They didn't give up... They accepted each other totally unconditionally.
Well, my parents were sort of packrats. They never threw anything away and, all through their time together, they stored away various things in a vault.
People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.
I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams.
My father was a patriot.
There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.
There are a lot of things about my father, various things, that people connect with. He was that diverse of a person, and he has a diverse fanbase.
I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.
I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the 4-H club have the same collection of Johnny Cash records as the punk on the street in Amsterdam.
Right before my dad died he was planning to go to New York City for the video music awards that he was nominated for, the MTV music awards. You couldn't tell him he wasn't going to go. It was going to happen. But he wound up having to check into the hospital there, and not too long later he died. But his spirit never gave up - his body did.
My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.
When I began looking into the Carter catalog and came across 'Will My Mother Know Me There,' it seemed like such a joyful number and such a song of the spirit that I could hear them all singing it together.
There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.
If you were going through your attic and found a Van Gogh, what would you do? You wouldn't put it in your bathroom; you'd want to share it with the world because you know people will love it.
Along with the music, there is a large part of my father's legacy that has to do with what he had to say. What he believed in, what he stood for, the understanding of his own darkness, the faith that he had that drove him, and the great love that he had for people.
I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.
The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.
God probably shook his head and said 'Oh, my goodness' many times in dealing with my father. But what God saw in my father was that he was a rock, a foundation in a lot of ways - someone people could relate to who could shine strong and was not afraid to reveal himself. I think he was a great role model to many people in that way.
This is my home; I've made it my home for my whole life. I'm an old Nashville veteran.
