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. – Kris Kristofferson
I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the ’60s was really exciting for me. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
When I wrote ‘Help Me Make It Through the Night,’ I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. – Kris Kristofferson
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
Human rights is something that wasn’t hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights. – Kris Kristofferson
To me, the best love songs work on two – maybe three – different levels, where you’re talking about the person who you’re right opposite, and all the people like that. – Kris Kristofferson
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. – Kris Kristofferson
I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. – Kris Kristofferson
If it hadn’t been for Johnny Cash, I’d probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that’s what I had done for almost five years. – Kris Kristofferson
You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. – Kris Kristofferson
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it’s just the opposite. – Kris Kristofferson
