A biography for Kris Kristoffersonhasn’t been written yet.
“I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.”
“'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.”
“I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“'This Old Road' somehow seems to get better the older you get.”
“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.”
“I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.”
“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.”
“I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.”
“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'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.”
“I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'”
“Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.”
“Songs are just like your kids. You love them all, and they're all different. I can't really pick out favourites.”
“As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.”