A biography for John Carter Cashhasn’t been written yet.
“Words are powerful, but action rules.”
“I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.”
“I always heard my dad talk about playing music right through till the end. He may have talked in the early 90s about how he was ready to get off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn't part of his make-up.”
“My dad was a unique person.”
“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.”
“I have a novel out, 'Lupus Rex,' that I wrote and am excited about that.”
“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.”
“He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.”
“Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.”
“I've found that I really don't want to go out on the road anymore. I love my home.”
“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 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 did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.”
“In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.”
“I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.”
“The Carter family history means a lot to me.”
“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'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.”
“I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.”