Willie Nelson is looking forward at what’s to come in his already storied career, the 89-year-old music legend expressed gratitude for his journey thus far.
“I have been so fortunate this far, that I just hope for things to continue the way they are,” Nelson told PEOPLE ahead of his 90th birthday on April 29th. “I think it would be too much to ask for anything more than what I already have experienced.”
To kick off the new year, Nelson is featured in BIC’s newest campaign for the company’s EZ Reach Lighter alongside Martha Stewart and his friend Snoop Dogg — an experience the Grammy winner called “a lot of fun.”
“I love Snoop,” Nelson said of working with his friend who he recalls meeting more than a decade ago when the pair collaborated on the song “My Medicine.” “He and I are great friends — have been forever. It was a lot of fun just hanging out and getting to do some things — Snoop and I.”
In December, Snoop had talked about his friendship with Nelson on SiriusXM’s Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray.
During the interview, Brady, 45, asked the rapper about “the most stoned” he’s ever been.
He replied:
“With Willie f—ing Nelson.”
Snoop then went on to recall a time he was in Amsterdam with Nelson, who is known to enjoy marijuana and even has two brands of cannabis, on 4/20.
“We was in Amsterdam on 4/20, and he was doing a concert out there,” Snoop told the hosts. “So, we went back to his hotel room, and we was playing dominoes.”
“Me and him were playing dominoes one-on-one,” Snoop continued. “He whooping my ass, and I’m just getting higher and higher and higher. He just keep passing it to me, and I’m like, ‘This old motherf—er’s outsmoking me.'”
Nelson also had fond memories of the trip telling PEOPLE that the two “smoked a lot of marijuana and had a lot of fun.”
“I was over in Amsterdam and I called him, I said, ‘Come on over here and let’s have some fun,'” Nelson remembered. “So he did, and we hung out at all the hotspots over there, The Bulldog and Gray Area and all the good stuff.”
