Isn’t it remarkable?
Kinda like finding out that the Pope listens to Alice Cooper. Yeah, yeah, yeah! And it’s very possible that the Pope listens to Alice Cooper. I mean, it keeps everybody in the game, cause you truly never know who you’re gonna reach. That’s very trite, but it’s very true. If you’d told me back in Nashville in ‘73 that this would happen I would never have believed you, that those two points would come together.
WILLIE CATCHES A BUZZ - Willie Nelson with comedian Ruth Buzzi and Kinky.
Amazing. You are a friend of Willie Nelson. We all love Willie. Do you have a funny story you could share about Willie? Well I’m not sure how funny it is, but one time I asked Willie for some financial advice. It was when I was spending all my money in Las Vegas, just pissing it away on the slots, I thought it was a transfer addiction from ear- lier in my life, from cocaine or something. I was blowing hundreds of thousands of dol- lars, maybe millions. I had asked others for advice on how to stop the addiction. I mean, what do I do, because I’m not a millionaire. So I asked Willie, and his advice was to mort- gage the house and the ranch, sell everything I had and go to Vegas and play the slots be- cause that’s what I liked to do and that’s what I want to do. Now, you would not get that ad- vice from anyone else. You would not get that advice from another person. But that was Willie’s advice because that’s what he would have done. I thought it was funny advice, but also wise in its own way. It’s actually kept me
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away from Vegas. It’s like a line I once said to Willie, “find what you like and let it kill you.” Now this isn’t funny, but one of the last times I saw him was a couple of months ago, and we were doing this thing when I was running for agriculture commissioner to legalize pot and hemp. We were talking to radio stations all over Texas from Willie’s bus parked in Nashville. We were talking and I told Willie he was a freak of nature. At his age playing all these shows that tire out the whole band ex- cept him. He laughed, and said that he thought the workout regiment might have something to do with it but that’s all he could figure. I started thinking later that those weren’t the kindest words that I chose, and it bothered me a lot that I had called him a freak of nature. Then I thought about it, one thing that Willie has is the same thing my grandmother had, and that is the ability to take everything the right way. There’s people who go through life with a bad perspective. If you called them a freak of nature they’d take
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