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" There was time in the first half of the '80s when what I was saying on the stage was controversial. A lot of things I was talking about - Nicaragua and American foreign policy. "

Kris Kristofferson

Stage

American

Saying

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Johnny Cash has always been larger than life. "

" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

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

" '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. "

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

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

Kris Kristofferson

Think

Women

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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 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. "

" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

Kris Kristofferson

Play

Playwright

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who you want to be, for better or worse. "

Kris Kristofferson

Yourself

You