As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

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

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.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

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

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