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" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "
Kris Kristofferson
Nothing
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Worth
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" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "
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" My old man worked for Pan American. "
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" I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war. "
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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 ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around. "
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" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "
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" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "
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How
" 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. "
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" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "
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" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "
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" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "
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About
Every
" 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. "
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Wait
Me
" I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. "
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" There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. "
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" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "
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" 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. "
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" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "
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" I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training. "
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" 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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" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "
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" I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better. "
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Good
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" I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. "
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" Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. "
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