Willie Nelson to Jeff Sessions: Smoke Some Pot
It's the day before Willie Nelson's 84th birthday, but he's keeping his plans modest. "I'm just going to try and be here," he says with a laugh from his tour bus, the Honeysuckle Rose, currently parked in Laughlin, Nevada, another stop on Nelson's furious two-weeks-on, two-weeks-off touring schedule. "I'm still enjoying it," he says. "It's the two weeks off that gets kind of long." This summer, Nelson will tour with the Outlaw Music Festival, which includes dates with Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell and Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah. Nelson is looking forward to breaking out songs from his excellent new album, God's Problem Child. "It'll be a great chance to run into a lot of old friends," says Nelson, who, after thousands of gigs, has his own ways of keeping the show interesting: "I won't intentionally try to throw the band off, but I do things that they don't know. And sometimes, there's a magic that happens."
Your new single "Still Not Dead" is hilarious. What was the inspiration?
Well, many years ago, when I wrote "On the Road Again," that's the first time I heard that I was dead. Somebody said, "Willie was singing 'On the Road Again,' and a bus hit him." That was funny for a few years. Then I heard these, what do you call them, "alternative facts": I got up two or three times in the past couple of years and read I'd passed away. I just wanted to let 'em know that's a lot of horseshit.
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Jeff Sessions recently said that pot is "only slightly less awful" than heroin.
I wonder if he's tried both of them. I don't think you can really make a statement like that unless you tried it all. So I'd like to suggest to Jeff to try it and then let me know later if he thinks he's still telling the truth!
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Elephant tranquilizers. 
(Republican pun intended.)
