Willie Nelson: ‘I drank too much, I smoked too much. I took too many pills’
The legendary country singer says he did everything wrong. Yet now, at 93, he’s music’s last man standing. What’s the secret of his longevity? • Read an exclusive extract from Willie Nelson’s memoir here Before the…
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The legendary country singer says he did everything wrong. Yet now, at 93, he’s music’s last man standing. What’s the secret of his longevity? • Read an exclusive extract from Willie Nelson’s memoir here Before the interview, Willie Nelson’s publicist warns me that there’s only one thing the 93-year-old country music legend doesn’t like to discuss: the past. Which rules out talking about the 150-plus albums he’s made; the Highwaymen, the supergroup he formed with Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings; writing On the Road Again on an aeroplane sick bag. It also rules out talking about paying off a $32m tax bill with a double album called The IRS Tapes; co-founding Farm Aid with Neil Young and John Mellencamp; taking $40,000 off Woody Harrelson in a single poker session; or breaking up a massive brawl in a parking lot with two Colt 45s before signing autographs for cops. No…