Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

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

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

I'm living in a world that was created a hundred years ago with vaudeville and people traveling around and medicine shows and things and making live music on stage and I'm still doing that. I like it that way. I like to present something to people that's had 40 years of being honed and perfected. It's something that you're not going to find with an artist who's been around for two or three years, or even ten years.

How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.

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