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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.

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music.

Kris Kristofferson

The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

Kris Kristofferson

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

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

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Kris Kristofferson

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.

Kris Kristofferson

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

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.

Kris Kristofferson

I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

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

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

Kris Kristofferson

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

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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

Kris Kristofferson

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.

Kris Kristofferson

To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.

Kris Kristofferson

Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.

Kris Kristofferson