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" 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

Age

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

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

" 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. "

" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

" 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

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" To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me. "

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" '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. "

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

" There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country 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. "

" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "