Johnny and June Carter Cash

Johnny and June Carter Cash were interviewed by NBC’s Garrick Utley on Jan. 17, 1990. They discussed their life on the road, the drug problems of Johnny and the family, the grief caused by tabloid reports, and the sadness and pain in their music.

On writing “Ring of Fire,” June Carter said, “That was kind of a thing I was living through about the time, I think I felt like I was in a ring of fire. But you know you always have steel that comes from the hammer in the white heat if you get through it so I think that’s what our lives said. We’ve gone through a lot of fire, but we’re still survivors and we still enjoy what we’re doing. There is pain, it’s been painful to talk about some of this stuff today … That’s what life is. It’s happiness and its pain, it’s all molded together, and it all comes out and finally maybe we will be steel one of these days.”

Additional Interviews With Johnny and June Carter Cash
June Carter Cash gave an interview to Terry Gross of NPR’s “Fresh Air” on June 19, 1987, while Johnny Cash did an interview on Nov. 4, 1997

Johnny discussed his life and career in a June 25, 1993, interview with the Academy of Achievement.

Johnny gave his final interview to MTV’s Kurt Loder in August 2003, just weeks before his death.

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