As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

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.

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

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

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains

God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.

There is nothing like the love or a child.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

I was jealous; therefore I loved.

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.