My generation knew June Carter as Johnny Cash's wife, as the woman who wrote Ring of Fire and as part of the Carter Family. By the time I became aware of her, she was this really seductive, Appalachian mountain princess who had captured Johnny Cash's eye. We didn't realize what my parents' generation knew, which was that June was the funniest of the Carter Sisters. Her act was this absurd, comedic take on herself.
-Dwight Yoakam, 2003

Nobody could ever have a truer companion through the sickness as June was. We're closer now than we've ever been in our lives. We've seen a lot of them die and fall, seen great artists bite the dust, but she and I have fought together and fought for each other, and we're one.
-Johnny Cash, 2000

There are so many things I could tell about those years — the sleepless nights in the apartment he shared with Waylon Jennings, the wrecks, the pain, the hurt. He should have died a thousand times from an overdose or a wreck. ... But God never let him go, and neither did I.
-June Carter Cash, 1979