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" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "

Kris Kristofferson

Man

Father

Crazy

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" My old man worked for Pan American. "

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

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Love

You

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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

" They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "

" 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

Things

Army

" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

" My albums really are like scrapbooks to me. "

Kris Kristofferson

Albums

Really

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me. "

Kris Kristofferson

Cash

Nashville

" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "

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

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

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

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