Quotes by Don McLean

• American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
• In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
• 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.