If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

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.

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.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

The next time you’re waiting, redeem the time through prayer. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.