Kris Kristofferson

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.”

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

“I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.”

“If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.”

“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 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.”

“I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.”

“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.”

“The older I get, the less conservative I become.”

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

“Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.”

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

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

“When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.”

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