Quotes from Kris Kristofferson

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

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

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

My thirsty wanted whiskey...

You're the only one that you are screwin', when you put down what you don't understand.

Sometimes outlaws walk on water.

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

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.

I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.

There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.

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

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

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.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.