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In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.

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

I think 'American Pie' is great.

One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.