S3 E9: Ethan Hawke on "Too Sick To Pray"
This week, four-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke\u2014who in addition to being an acclaimed actor, writer, and director happens also to be a hardcore Willie nerd\u2014discusses \u201cToo Sick to Pray,\u201d a meditative hymn from Willie\u2019s beautiful, pin-drop quiet 1996 album, Spirit. Ethan says the song and album were touchstones for him when he first became a father in the late 90s, before going on to describe the way Willie\u2019s music connected him with his own dad as a kid, peppering his memories with digressions on Bob Dylan, Henri Matisse, Johnny Cash, Dead Poets Society...and earlobes. Oh and he also explains why he thinks a Willie Nelson biopic has to be set in the here and now.