Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Don McLean

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There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.

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I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

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The America now is not the America I started out in, and it's not the America that I was in before I started out … The America that I remember in the 1950s when I was growing up and was a young boy and teenager — that's the America I knew and the value system I knew.

Yet this is all part of a scheme for them to get more power, that's all it is.

It’s kind of a folk song now, if there's any definition of what a real folk song is, in the world of music back a hundred years ago or so — even hundreds of years ago in rural areas — there were no tape recorders or TV or radio, or even people who were literate enough to write things down.

I have a degree in finance and economics, from a good school — Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, which turns out a lot of business people. And all of that stuck with me through the years.

I was young, I was the right guy at the right time, the audience was receptive, I knew my audience, and I knew what they wanted.

And it would have three No. 1 songs from that album — but they didn't really do that back then.

We won the Olympics — we didn't send some dumb ‘Dream Team’ with professional athletes over to the Olympics. The Olympics were really the Olympics. Guys didn't have multi-million contracts and trainers … [The athletes in the Olympics] were everyday Americans. That's gone now.

Everything I have, all of my worldly income, is going to go to my foundation.

And I'm always thankful to have work.

She’s been automatically disinherited — that’s almost a $ 3 million trust fund that went down the tubes, i’ve always supported my daughter — $ 30,000, $ 40,000, $ 50,000 a year, doubling her husband’s salary. I wanted to make sure the grandkids had everything they wanted.

I’m honored to have her as a girlfriend and a partner and we have no plans to ever break up, we are going to stay together and ride this pony as long as we can.

Love is the most important thing you can have, you have to love somebody. Hate is such a burden. It’s a complete waste of time. I love my children and I love my girlfriend. I’m crazy for her.

All these love letters that she sent me every month for 30 years -- they immediately turned to salt.