Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson

Curating the most illuminating interviews with an American icon isn‘t easy. Willie Nelson‘s words can be found everywhere: TV, radio, movies, and on the many musical recordings he is responsible for over a decades-long career. Nelson, the last surviving member of the Highwaymen, has outlasted most of his generation of outlaw country musicians. And he is still releasing albums--and featuring on tracks with current superstars such as Beyoncé. Nelson is an American institution. This collection reveals the icon as a complex and contradictory man, elusive at times, revealing at others. Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson is a collection of interviews that illuminates him not only as a musician but as an actor, writer, political and animal-rights activist, drug advocate, and environmentalist. These interviews with Nelson, many of them unseen for decades, range from the early 1970s to 2020 and are tied together by a biographical timeline and compositional history of his most beloved songs and albums. They reveal not only the life and work of Nelson but also a bevy of committed journalists, some of them amateur, whom Nelson welcomed, one and all, to share his sometimes-radical worldview with an adoring public. Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson is the definitive source for anyone wanting to authentically encounter the legend in print.