"I saw my parents go through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They almost split up."
"My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls."
"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."
"It was hard to say no to Johnny Cash."
"I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations."
"Some folks expect my music to sound like my dad's."
"The Carter family history means a lot to me."
"I listen to all types of music."
"My father was a great outdoorsman. From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or on a lake. He taught me how to skin a rabbit and pluck a wild turkey. He showed me there is much more to nature than we can ever understand."
"My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through."
"I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand."
"I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons."
"I'm always writing my own music, recording my own music, even if I am 9/10 of the time recording stuff for other people. I'm still working on my own creative endeavors."
"In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me."
"In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school."
"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."
"He was just Dad. But it's hard to deny who he was when you're brought out on stage, and you're standing beside this great man singing at the end of a show, and the crowd loves him."
"My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice."
"Mom was very protective of me. Her hands were gentle, and her touch was soothing. She always talked quite a bit, but she was bright and affectionate."
"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."
"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."
"My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were."
"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 most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be."
