Tom T. Hall

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 first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

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

I don't like to get in front of people.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?