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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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" '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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Money

Heaven

True

" 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. "

" They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends. "

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

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Bad

Wish

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Day

Great

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. "

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

" Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea. "

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

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Going

Hell

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

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

" I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. "

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

" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

Kris Kristofferson

Albums

Really

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them. "

" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "

" I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Doing

Past

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

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

" 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. "