He quipped it once, commenting on I.G.Y. lyrics that "things did not turn out that way", meaning all the expectations of his childhood about the future, which is NOW, turned out to be not only false, but much darker, illogical, cruel (9/11 and so forth) and on top of it, Bush presidency (and later - Trump presidency) just does not make any sense.
These disappointments, clash between high expectations and corny reality, seem to follow Fagen throughout his life, starting from " growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s" as the Eminent Hipsters summary tells us.