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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
— John Mellencamp
Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.
— John Mellencamp
When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.
— John Mellencamp
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
— John Mellencamp
All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.
— John Mellencamp
Most people in life, give up too early.
— John Mellencamp
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?
— John Mellencamp
People have the right to say what they want to.
— John Mellencamp
Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.
— John Mellencamp
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
— John Mellencamp
An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.
— John Mellencamp
This is about black people selling out other black people.
— John Mellencamp
What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
— John Mellencamp
Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?
— John Mellencamp
Everything I see and hear ... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.
— John Mellencamp
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
— John Mellencamp
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
— John Mellencamp
With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.
— John Mellencamp
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
— John Mellencamp
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
— John Mellencamp
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
— John Mellencamp
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
— John Mellencamp
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.
— Rebecca Pidgeon
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
— John Mellencamp
My voice has gotten better from smoking.
— John Mellencamp
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
— John Mellencamp
I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.
— John Mellencamp
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
— John Mellencamp
When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
— John Mellencamp
I fight authority and authority always wins.
— John Mellencamp
All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.
— John Mellencamp
Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
— John Mellencamp
I want you to dance naked, if you like, I'll join you.
— John Mellencamp
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.
— John Mellencamp
I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.
— John Mellencamp
Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.
— John Mellencamp
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
— John Mellencamp
Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.
— John Mellencamp
All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
— John Mellencamp
Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.
— John Mellencamp
I know there's a balance/I see it when I swing past.
— John Mellencamp
Want me to spend the night? Hey lover boy, you know I will, and my best girlfriend lives down the road, together we will thrill you.
— John Mellencamp
Springsteen might have been able to tear through my heart, but Mellencamp shot straight through my soul.
— Kristen Ashley
It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
— John Mellencamp
Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.
— John Mellencamp
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
— John Mellencamp
Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
— John Mellencamp
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
— John Mellencamp
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
— John Mellencamp
Hold on to 16 as long as you can,
— John Mellencamp
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
— John Mellencamp
There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.
— John Mellencamp
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
— John Mellencamp
I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.
— John Mellencamp
You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
— John Mellencamp
Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
— John Mellencamp
The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.
— John Mellencamp
She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.
— John Mellencamp
She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.
— John Mellencamp
It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
— John Mellencamp
It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?
— John Mellencamp
Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.
— John Mellencamp
All my friends are so small town.
— John Mellencamp
They say life goes on long after the thrill of living
— John Mellencamp
I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.
— John Mellencamp
Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?
— John Mellencamp
Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.
— John Mellencamp
There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.
— John Mellencamp
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
— John Mellencamp
You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.
— John Mellencamp
Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.
— John Mellencamp
Hold on to 16 as long as you can. changes coming round real soon, make us women and men.
— John Mellencamp
I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.
— John Mellencamp
Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!
— John Mellencamp
I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.
— John Mellencamp
His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.
— John Mellencamp
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
— John Mellencamp
I do things my way and I pay a high price.
— John Mellencamp
This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.
— John Mellencamp
