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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. "

Kris Kristofferson

People

Life

Music

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" The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it. "

" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

Kris Kristofferson

Albums

Really

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

" Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. "

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

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

" 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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Day

Great

" As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark. "

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Yourself

You

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

" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "

Kris Kristofferson

Love

You

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

World

Kind

" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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