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.

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

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

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.

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

It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.

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