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.

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

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.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.