Don McLean People Quotations

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

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.

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.

So 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.