'The Man Comes Around' is a song that I wrote, it's my song of the apocalypse, and I got the idea from a dream that I had - I dreamed I saw Queen Elizabeth. I dreamed I went in to Buckingham Palace, and there she sat on the floor. And she looked up at me and said, 'Johnny Cash, you're like a thorn tree in a whirlwind.' And I woke up, of course, and I thought, what could a dream like this mean? Thorn tree in a whirlwind? Well, I forgot about it for two or three years, but it kept haunting me, this dream. I kept thinking about it, how vivid it was, and then I thought, Maybe it's biblical. So I found it. Something about whirlwinds and thorn trees in the Bible. So from that, my song started and... 'The Man Comes Around.' The song turned out to be 'The Man Comes Around.'

You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give …

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

There's always rhythm going in my mind. ... I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'…

The line 'because you're mine, I walk the line.' It kept coming to me, you know? But I was - I was ... young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming…

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

There's always rhythm going in my mind. ... I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'…