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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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" I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. "

Kris Kristofferson

Looking

Wait

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites. "

Kris Kristofferson

Love

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. "

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

" 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. "