I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world. – Kris Kristofferson
The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young. – Kris Kristofferson
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I’m looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that’s really two scars – half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I’ll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. – Kris Kristofferson
I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day. – Kris Kristofferson
As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer… the desire to make your mark. – Kris Kristofferson
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time. – Kris Kristofferson
I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. – Kris Kristofferson
I enjoy looking back on my life. I’m thinking seriously about starting to write about it. – Kris Kristofferson
I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for – for its art. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
The great thing about Nashville back in the day was that the old guys hung out where the young guys were. The established writers like Harlan Howard and Jack Clement gave us encouragement and passed the guitar, you know? Chet Atkins let me sit in on his sessions. Everybody was good to us, and everybody loved the music. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been… and I will be. – Kris Kristofferson
What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don’t see losing it. And I don’t care if I never do another movie. And I don’t care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I’m gonna do that. But if I don’t, I can live with that. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
Look at me! I can go from ‘Donny and Marie’ to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week. – Kris Kristofferson
I watched Dylan record ‘Blonde On Blonde’ in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
