So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.