“I was quite a reader before I became a writer.” — Tom T. Hall

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

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.