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" 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. "

Kris Kristofferson

Never

Tell

Think

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

" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

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Albums

Really

" Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time. "

" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

Kris Kristofferson

Small Town

Live

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "

" 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

Best

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

" The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. "

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

" Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. "