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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.

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

The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.

I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

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 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.

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.

My dad lived with pain his whole life.