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

Kris Kristofferson

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" I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. "

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" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "

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" I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got. "

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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 did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. "

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" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "

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" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "

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" I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan. "

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

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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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" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "

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" When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. "

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

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" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

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" What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that. "

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" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "

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" Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music. "

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" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "

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" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "

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" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "

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" I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. "

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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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