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

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.

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

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.