Quotes from Kris Kristofferson

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

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

I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.

I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

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

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

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.

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.

I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

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.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

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

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.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

My albums really are like scrapbooks to me.

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.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.