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

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

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.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

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

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

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

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore.

Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

I do not judge the universe.

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.