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've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.