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" 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. "

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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.' "

Kris Kristofferson

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Moment

Best

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

" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody. "

Kris Kristofferson

World

Kind

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants. "

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

" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "

" 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. "