Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
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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.
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Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.
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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.
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The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
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Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.
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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.
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Why me Lord? What have I ever doneTo deserve even one of the pleasures I've known?Tell me Lord what did I ever doThat was worth loving you or the kindness you've shown?
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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.
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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.
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I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
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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.
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Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.
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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.'
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Being in love with a lot of people is incompatible with a stable family life.
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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.
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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.'
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Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
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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.
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Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
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I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.
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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.