Willie Nelson Biography

"I've sung with a lot of the best singers in the world. Some of my greatest friends, some of my heroes. I got to do an album with Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Hank Snow, Roger Miller, Ray Price . . . a lot of people can't say that. So there's nothing that I really have a burning desire to do because I've been fortunate enough to do a lot of things".

"One thing that always used to upset me is to have a fat doctor sitting there with a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other and tell me to quit smoking and running".

"There is no process….all different ways. Some days I write, some days I don’t….Most day I don’t!" (laughing)

"Do what you want to do. Just follow your heart. Listen to me, and then do what you want to do".

"I just do things off the top of my head….trust my instincts pretty much".

"In the early days, we'd be out on the road and go out and play our concert, and then go back to the hotel and party till daylight. And then when it came time to leave, you couldn't find anybody! [laughs] So I decided somewhere along the way that it's better to leave town right after the show. And since we've started doing that, I've noticed that the marriages are actually staying together. [laughs]"

"You've got to go back to 'Crazy', Patsy Cline. How could you top that one?"

"I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys".

"Stop the war. Stop the bleeding. That's the first thing…the number-one priority is to stop this war. Once that happens, all the trillions of dollars that we're spending over there can be spent here on our people, our poor people, for health insurance and all the things that evidently we don't have the money to work with because it's all over there fighting wars. And if it's not that war, it's another war. It's just this series of one war after another".

"When I was growing up, that was the theme that every Sunday morning, they yelled at us. [laughs] "Peace on Earth!” And now it looks like that somewhere along the way, people forgot that message. Now it's war on Earth".

"My ex-wife Martha used to say, "Don't worry about a thing, because there ain't nothin' that's gonna be all right." [laughs]"