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

Kris Kristofferson

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" I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words. "

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

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" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" My old man worked for Pan American. "

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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. "

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

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