 I am a fan of history. |
| If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine! |
| I was quite a reader before I became a writer. |
| I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried. |
| My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all. |
| After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. |
| Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either. |
| The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing. |
| Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. |
| I love winners when they cry, losers when they try. |
| The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are. |
| My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it. |
| I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. |
| The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. |
| I never hid out. I was never big enough a star. |
| Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. |
| This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. |
| Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. |
| I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. |
| When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. |
