"They like country music, we get along fine and Keith (Richards) is "I’m sure I made a lot of mistakes," Nelson Nelson admits he’s had a few run-ins with the law over his pot smoking He says the pot smoking hasn’t hindered his songwriting. On the contrary, "I figured if it wasn’t worth remembering it probably wasn’t a very good Much of his advice in his book is as simple as urging "I could have gotten all pissed off thirty-something years ago when He just can’t exactly remember for what…<\/em><\/p>\n from Reuters<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK (Reuters) – At 73, country music legend Willie Nelson is still doing headstands and smoking joints in the back of a tour bus at hundreds of concerts and, far from slowing down, he’d like to tour with the … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/wilynel.jpg\")
NEW YORK (Reuters<\/a>) – At 73, country music legend Willie
\n Nelson is still doing headstands and smoking joints in the back of a
\n tour bus at hundreds of concerts and, far from slowing down, he’d like
\n to tour with the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n
\n a good buddy of mine, so that would be good," Nelson said, adding
\n that he’s not much of a dancer compared to Stones front man Mick Jagger
\n but he might
\n give it a try.<\/p>\n
\n said with a smile, sitting in a luxury suite at New York’s Carlyle Hotel,
\n a whiff of marijuana drifting down the corridor.<\/p>\n
\n habits. "If you’re going to be out there with it, somebody’s going
\n to pull you over, just because they can. … I talk about it a lot, but
\n I’m not going to walk into some police station burning one down and say,
\n ‘How are you all doing?"<\/p>\n
\n it may have helped filter out the duds.<\/p>\n
\n song, so that would be the test, to see if I remembered it until I got
\n back to a guitar or a piano," he said. "That was usually a
\n pretty good measuring stick, but I’m sure I forgot a few that might have
\n been OK." <\/p>\n
\n people to breathe deeply and drink plenty of water, and he draws examples
\n from his past to show the importance, for example, of not getting angry
\n for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n
\n my wife Shirley tied my drunk ass to the bed with a clothesline and woke
\n me up by beating me with a mop handle, but instead I figured I probably
\n had it coming," he writes.<\/p>\n