You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.

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

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

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