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. -Kris Kristofferson Power
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 Family
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end. -Kris Kristofferson Truth
'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. -Kris Kristofferson Morning
I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose. -Kris Kristofferson Independence
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. -Kris Kristofferson Wisdom
There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. -Kris Kristofferson Travel
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. -Kris Kristofferson Relationship
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 Morning
