Bono writing about Johnny Cash

Here's the liner notes that Bono wrote for the Cash compilation, God--

--Johnny Cash doesn't sing to the damned, he sings with the damned, and sometimes you feel he might prefer their company...

--So the sugar is turned to salt and the triumphalism is quieted bu the brokenness of a voice that knows compromise of real life. Big John sings like the thief who was crucified beside Christ, whose humble entreaties had Jesus promising that night he would see paradise.

--Johnny Cash is a righteous due and he keeps righteous company with June Carter Cash and the Carter Family, but it's the "outlaw" who would break and enter your heart, and leave you with a nagging question, "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?"