This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

In early 1985 Castellano was one of many Mafia bosses arrested on charges of racketeering which was to result in the Mafia Commission Trial. Castellano often signed his name as "C. by Andre Nickatina in the quote at the end of the song "Dice of Life".

Constantino Paul "Big Paul" Castellano (pronounced cass-TAY-lah-noh) (June 26 1915 – December 16 1985) also known as "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" and "Big Paulie" (or "PC" to his family) succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family then the nation's largest Cosa Nostra family. The unsanctioned assassination of Castellano by John Gotti would spark years of animosity between the Gambinos and the other New York crime families.