Quotes from Kris Kristofferson

My old man worked for Pan American.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

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.

The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.

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.

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.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.

If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

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

The older I get, the less conservative I become.

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.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.

I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.

Bobby Bare is one of the greatest people in country music.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.