My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

Voice of the Spirit' was a project I'd been talking about for a long time. It began as an Appalachian record. But it's a record of all pure Southern gospel.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.

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.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father's and mother's journeys.

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.

Within the first six years of my life, if asked what Dad was to me I would have emphatically responded: 'Dad is fun!' This was my simple foundation for my enduring relationship with my father.

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.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

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.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

My parents were on the road a lot in the 1970s. Winifred Kelly, a nurse from the hospital where I was born, was hired to care for me. Her love and discipline had a big influence on my upbringing.

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.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began playing guitar with him in the road in the late '80s until he retired in 1997. So I traveled the world with them for years, you know, and all around the world and got to meet some great people.

Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his own faith.

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.

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.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

There's nothing purer than Janette Carter with an autoharp.

I've found that I really don't want to go out on the road anymore. I love my home.

My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.

My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up with his first wife. It just happened to be that when he was going to get back up on his feet, my mother was there.

To me, those are the greatest treasures - the personal letters between my parents.

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

I saw my parents go through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They almost split up.

It was hard to say no to Johnny Cash.

Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's.

I listen to all types of music.

I love to cook, man, I'm the short-order cook of the house. It's also my creativity. The kitchen is my space. I'm always cooking, I'm always making something.

My father and mother were together because of their faith.

My father was always respectful to my grandfather. I really wanted that to be known because I never saw him disrespect my grandfather, and I never saw them have a cross word.

I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.

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.'

My father was a unique man, but he had a shyness about him.

Nobody sounds like my dad.

I've cooked my whole life, and I grew up in a household of cooks.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

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.

My dad was a unique person.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

My father was a patriot.