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" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "

Kris Kristofferson

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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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" The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music. "

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

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" Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time. "

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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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" 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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" There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was. "

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

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

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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 always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. "

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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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" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "

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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 watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "

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" I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that. "

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" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "

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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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" I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.' "

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

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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

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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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" Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff. "

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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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" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "

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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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