Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

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.

We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying.Untile we sleep.

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.