I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.