Wit & Attitude Quote by Lee Hazlewood

Lee Hazlewood’s voice here is doing what his music often did: swaggering toward myth, then undercutting itself with a plainspoken bruise. The first clause sets up the familiar rock-and-roll caricature - the restless, over-traveled eccentric everyone loves to label “crazy.” It’s a tidy public narrative, almost flattering in its way, because it frames excess as personality rather than consequence. Hazlewood lets that version of himself hang in the air just long enough to feel like a shrug.

Then he flips the lighting. “But I haven’t been doing any of that lately” isn’t a confession so much as a quiet re-edit of the legend. The punch isn’t that he’s slowed down; it’s why: “I got a little sick this year.” That “little” is doing heavy emotional labor, minimizing the threat to keep control of the conversation. It’s the classic performer move - keep it casual, keep it moving - except the next phrase, “I’ve tried to take care of it,” introduces something rarer in celebrity talk: accountability without spectacle.

The intent feels twofold: to push back on the cheap diagnosis (“crazy”) and to preempt the pity machine that kicks in when artists admit fragility. Subtextually, travel becomes more than touring; it’s the old escape hatch, the motion that keeps stillness - and whatever waits in it - at bay. The line lands because it’s not inspirational or self-dramatizing. It’s a working musician’s realism: your body eventually vetoes your persona, and the most radical thing you can do is treat that as an administrative fact, not a headline.