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" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
Kris Kristofferson
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" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "
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" Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling. "
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" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "
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" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "
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" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "
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" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "
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" I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years. "
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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "
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" To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing. "
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" I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. "
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" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "
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" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "
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" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "
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