oh, at the top of my voice

Mellow (courtesy of Willie Nelson’s site/Lance Armstrong)

from the fresh air interview with willie nelson (obviously have spent some time in the car lately):

NELSON: Well, I have listened to a lot of different kinds of music, and I grew up listening to everything from Frank Sinatra to Hank Williams. So I’m sure I picked up a lot from, you know, every one of those guys. I lived across the street from a whole gang of great Mexican friends of mine who played music all the time. So I was influenced by all that music. I worked in the fields with all kinds of people who sang and played in practically every language, from bohemian to Czech to Spanish. So I heard all kinds of music. It was like being in an opera out there in the cotton fields. And picking cotton wasn’t that fun, but the music out there was incredible.

GROSS: Did you sing when you were picking cotton?

NELSON: Oh, at the top of my voice.

[also willie nelson grew up picking cotton?!]

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from the fresh air interview with gloria steinem:

STEINEM: I don’t know if he [my father] thought that, but he did think that ice cream was the ultimate reward. I mean, no matter what bad thing happened — say our car had been repossessed by the finance company or he had mortgaged the house without my mother’s knowing about it — and, you know, no matter what bad thing happened, or no matter what bad thing had happened to me, you know…I mean, a childhood kind of bad thing — he thought that a malted and a movie could cure everything. And I have to say…he wasn’t wrong.

A malted and movie can go a very long way.