Kris Kristofferson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.
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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.
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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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'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.
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I think it's kind of odd that 'This Old Road' was the first video I ever did. Because of all of the work I had done in films and everything, you'd think I would have done a video before that.
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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?
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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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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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Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.
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I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
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I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.
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I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.