GOD BLESS JOHNNY CASH ~ THE INTERVIEW

ON FAILURE Q: A lot of people let failure get them down. You're saying that you've got to move on. MR. CASH : You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. If you analyze it as you're moving forward, you'll never fall in the same trap twice, which I can't say that I haven't been guilty of doing. But my advice is, if they're going to break your legs once when you go in that place, stay out of there. ON THE BIBLE Q: If you could talk to someone you never met but had admired, who would that be and what would you talk about? MR. CASH: I would like to have been on the mountain when Jesus was preaching. I would like to have been listening. It's great to still have his words. I would like to have talked to John Wilkes Booth, and asked him "Why?" to satisfy my own curiosity. I'd like to talk to Pontius Pilate. I'd like to talk to the Apostle Paul. I'd like to talk to King John, at the time of the Magna Carta, and see what the reaction of the common people was. Q:The Bible is very important to you. MR. CASH: I wrote a book called Man In Black, and I dedicated it to E.J. Carter. That's my wife's father, who taught me to love the Word. He was a theologian and he got me into Bible history, and the Bible commentaries. I discovered the joy of discovering spiritual truths, and it is a great joy. The Bible is the source of the greatest joy.