I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.