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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

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.

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 parents kept me close to them. I even slept in the same room with them throughout my younger years.

I don't think anyone in the world could play my father, look just like him, act just like him, and make you believe he's Johnny Cash. Joaquin Phoenix gets as close as anybody I think ever could.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

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.

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.

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.

I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.

We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and of various color and religion.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad's stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV.

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 always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.