The horrible thing about Death of princess Diana - the sacrificial lamb, which she was. And I believe, in a sense, John Kennedy, Jr. was the same thing. These are people that we loved so much that we drove them berserk with all the attention and they basically didn't have any particular stellar talents. They were just in some kind of a position somewhere where we fixed on them and they became, literally, sacrificial lambs

Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, a dream come true, I'll live there til I die.

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

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

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.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.