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.

That's the hard thing - getting started. You get started for a long time until you finally get to this point where people call you an icon or whatever they call you. It's nice. Suddenly the audience is with you more and they help you along and it's not so much that you have to do everything.

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

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

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

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.