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Rogers horse was trigger, so i decided to name my guitar larry: how many songs i guess you don t even know have you written? i don t know, 2,000, 3,000, maybe more. larry: how many cds have you collected? i don t either. there has been a lot of compilations, bootlegs, different ones, i don t know, hundreds. larry: which of your songs this may be hard with all of them are you proudest of? well, the ones that crazy, funny how times sway, on the road again. angels flying too close to the ground. larry: how did you come up with crazy ? a great song, a great tune. i don t know where it came from. it was a melody that was there and the word crazy was there. i think i ripped off floyd tillman a little bit somewhere along the way. larry: do you hear music in your head? sure, yeah. i hear melodies. larry: you re writing all the time? i could if i wanted to. i could, you know, sit down and write something right now. you know, who knows if it would be ....
that s probably more the truth. i really wouldn t to say, well, i regret this or regret that because i like the way things are now. and i think if i were to say, well, i wish that was different, then it might change in some way the way things are now. larry: any song ever offered to you you turned down, you later regret it? no. i was talking the other day about the song gambler that kenny rogers did. i had a chance to larry: that was offered to you? yeah, i had a chance to do that. larry: why didn t you do that? honestly, because i knew it was a hit and it was so long, had so many verses that i would have to do it every night. larry: go know when to hold them, know when to fold them. you turned that down? yeah. larry: a lot of pop that day. it had a bunch of verses in it i didn t want another long larry: your good friend kris kristofferson said anybody that doesn t like willie nelson is dead or may as well be dead. why does everybody like you so ....
don t fight, don t spite, just wait til tomorrow, maybe you ll be all right again larry: we re back with the great willie nelson. album country music will be out this tuesday. we re having a great time tonight with one of the truly great american artists who s an avid golfer. can you smoke pot and golf? sure. larry: okay. i can t play any worse than i normally do anyway. larry: are you a good player? no. larry: why do you like golf so much? oh, i don t know. it s just a place to get out and walk around outside. and that s originally the reason i started doing it. i moved down to lost valley and bandera. they had a golf course there. it was just me and my band, and my house had burnt. ....
larry: willie took part in a great benefit for 9/11 victims and their families. he sang america the beautiful. i don t think anyone ever sang it better. he s questioned the official story. what prompted you to look into this from another angle? well, just logic. i ve seen buildings implode before. just saw the texas stadium implode, a couple of days ago. and these two buildings imploded. and the one next to it, where nothing hit it, no plane hit the one next to it. it just decided to fall on its own. so naturally i have questions about how larry: you think something was done inside? yes. larry: i m told that the reason it imploded was because there was so much heat from above and so much fuel on the jets that that caused it to go down rather than go over. never before has a building collapsed because it was hit by an airplane, a steel building, never before. ....
And all those different things that at some point the irs disallowed. and so after advising me, my financial advisers told me to go into all this. then the irs disallowed it. so i was deferring taxes every year and putting the money into the feeding, cattle feeding deal. then when they disallowed it, all those years went by that i hadn t paid taxes. it started out i only owed them $2 million. if i d have paid them that, i d have never had a problem. larry: how do they tell you you owe $16 million? do you get a call? do you get a letter? how do they do that? i knew it was accruing rapidly over the years. larry: interest. penalties and interest every day went up $5,000 or $10,000. so it him if he thought i was in trouble. and he said, well, you know, they let a guitar player get into them that far, if he if ....