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Willie Nelson: Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen

Mark Cooper, Q, July 1993

…Er, unfortunately it already has. Three failed marriages, a son's suicide, his house burning down — and that's before the small matter of a $16.7 million tax bill. Yet, Willie Nelson tells Mark Cooper, "If I get an idea for a miserable song, I reject it."

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