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" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "

Kris Kristofferson

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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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" 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants. "

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" When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. "

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" Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. "

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" It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse. "

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" My old man worked for Pan American. "

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" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "

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" I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me. "

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" I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives. "

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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "

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" I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know. "

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" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "

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" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "

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" I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. "

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" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "

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" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "

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" There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. "

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" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "

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" I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.' "

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" When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite. "

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" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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" I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "

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" I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age. "

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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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" I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. "

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" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "

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" I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble. "

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" Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. "

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" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "

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" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

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