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" I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me. "
Kris Kristofferson
Small Town
Live
Me
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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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Little
Film
Motorcycle
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Love
Work
Truth
" 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. "
Kris Kristofferson
Morning
Writing
Looking
" If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares? "
Kris Kristofferson
Night
Star
Me
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Got
Wife
Trouble
" I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it. "
Kris Kristofferson
Thinking
Life
Looking Back
" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "
Kris Kristofferson
Man
Father
Crazy
" 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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Work
Love
Heart
" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "
Kris Kristofferson
Young
Children
Missing
" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "
Kris Kristofferson
You
Paddle
Throw
" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "
Kris Kristofferson
Film
Peru
Movie
" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "
Kris Kristofferson
Human Rights
Hard
Rights
" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "
Kris Kristofferson
Football
Fast
Play
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Me
Age
Best
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Back
Listen
Song
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
You
Never Give Up
Power
" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "
Kris Kristofferson
Something
Out
Get
" 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.' "
Kris Kristofferson
Think
Moment
Best
" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
Kris Kristofferson
Made
About
Every
" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "
Kris Kristofferson
Live
Free
Expectations
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Losing
Myself
Music
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Grief
Support
Family
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Oil
Thinking
Myself
" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "
Kris Kristofferson
Attention
I Can
Myself
" If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. "
Kris Kristofferson
He
Think
Women
" 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. "
Kris Kristofferson
Now
Long Time
Long
" 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. "
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Oil
Live
Right
" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "
Kris Kristofferson
Dirt
Hope
Keep
" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "
Kris Kristofferson
Writing
Know
Boy