Just A Thank You Is A Mighty

My Dad [johnny Cash] Went To The [richard] Nixon White House And Refused To Sing "welfare Cadillac" (instead Performing The Anti-war Songs "the Ballad Of Ira Hayes" And "man In Black"). He Protested The Vietnam War, But He Went To Perform For The Troops With Bombs Dropping All Around Him. He Had That Kind Of Genius: A True Artist's Capacity For Holding Two Opposing Thoughts At Once While Being Large Enough To Encompass All Realities.

Isn't That The Goal, As You Grow Older? That You Start Reclaiming Those Parts Of Yourself You Didn't Recognize Or Didn't Think Were There All Along? That's What Happened When I Made The River And The Thread Record.

Loss Is The Great Unifier, The Terrible Club To Which We All Eventually Belong.

Sometimes The Fragment Of A Conversation, The Color Of The Sky, The Image In A Dream, Has Everything To Do With Where The Song Begins.

I Couldn't Listen To Music With Lyrics For The First Few Months After The Brain Surgery, Because They Were Too Complex And Disturbing. So I Listened To A Lot Of Classical Music. I Didn't Really Want To Read, Either, So I Listened To Books On Tape Or Watched Movies. I Also Re-taught Myself All Of My Childhood Piano Pieces. It Helped Me Repair My Brain.