If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.