My Father and the Man in Black2012

Johnny Cash:
We had long ago found an understanding friend in Saul. He had suffered much embarrassment because of some of my capers when I was on pills. But he was cool, level-headed, and always handled the most complicated of my business problems, without burdening me down with the details of what he'd gone through in straightening out some of the messes I got myself into from missing show dates. He had never relayed the embarrassing questions he must have had to answer when I'd been in trouble. [Original Source: "Man In Black," by Johnny Cash 1975]

Saul Holiff:
I would say he has all of the faults of a very successful entertainer. A big ego, uh, self-centred, self-serving, uh, I could just go on endlessly. Read "The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" and you've got it all in one nutshell. And on the other hand, he's, um bright. He respects a job well done. He's very demanding of himself. He's a perfectionist. Uh, he's inordinately clever. He's exceptionally well read, uh, so he's, he's got qualities you can't help but respect and admire. [Original Source: CFPL Radio interview 1976]

Johnny Cash:
Saul suffered much embarrassment when I was on pills. But he was cool, level-headed, and always handled the messes I got myself into. Saul made many of the most significant moves of my career, and I owe him a lot. [Original Source: "CASH: The Autobiography," by Johnny Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr 1997]

Johnny Cash:
Saul stayed pretty well insulated from the fall-out. When I did something that left a mess-things broken, people abused, money squandered, laws broken, jail cells visited-his technique was to simply disappear. [Original Source: "A Man Called Cash," by Steve Turner 2004]

Saul Holiff:
Holiff grins and agrees: "I had one of the best disappearing acts - when I'd had enough. I just felt that there was a dignity involved and I could only go so far. And when I couldn't go any further, I just left. [Original Source: "The Johnny Cash Connection" Country Music News, May 2007]