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.

More Quotes by John Carter Cash

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 steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

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

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

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.