- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
- Cash
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't get out of something, get into it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020