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" I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time. "

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" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Long

Time

Truth

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself. "

" 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. "

" 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

" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "

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

" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "

" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "

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

" I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me. "

Kris Kristofferson

Cash

Nashville

" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "

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

" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "

" 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

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

Kris Kristofferson

Play

Playwright

" 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 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Art

Song

" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "

" Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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