Give or take a day, Willie Nelson has been alive for 48,702,240 minutes.
For that reason alone, I hesitated when a publicist recently asked if I’d like to have 10 of those minutes to ask the 92-year-old Nelson about, among other things, working as a model for Haider Ackermann’s new collection for Snow Goose. How, I wondered, do you ask Nelson—one of the greatest American singers of all time, one of music’s most singular guitarists, one of this country’s and country music’s defining songwriters, and an icon and iconoclast who has reframed notions of what it means to be an activist and an American—anything meaningful in 10 minutes? So I sensibly begged for 12 minutes and was told that, if he liked me, our conversation might just last 15. If he didn’t, I was warned, he’d ask, “Do you have a few more questions?,” which would be my signal to wrap it up, no matter what the clock said.
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