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 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.

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.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

Only the fittest will survive.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.

There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

She took the sun when it came and the rain the same way.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.