“I was writing my life, what I saw around me.   You’ve got to live the life, I don’t think you can write those sort of songs otherwise. Or even sing them. Ain’t nobody’s that good an actor. And I was writing it from a dark, shady side, I guess. I was going into one relationship out of another, all kinds of domestic bullshit. Over the years it produced a lot of music, that’s for sure, but it was a hard way to do it.”
Willie Nelson:Â The Outlaw, by Graeme Thomson