There are a whole lot of Carter Family songs.

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.

Words are powerful, but action rules.

There's something magical that happens to every three-year-old that hears 'Ring of Fire.' That's usually where it starts for most people. They immediately want to put on a black shirt, grab a guitar and sing 'Ring of Fire.'

Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.

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

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

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.

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.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.