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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
- John Mellencamp
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One quality of a good songwriter is to be vague. A vague notion, a vague image, but enough to give the listener the opportunity to make more out of what's being said than is there. That's the great thing about Bob Dylan's songs: We the listeners have made more out of them than he ever intended.
- John Mellencamp
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Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.
- John Mellencamp
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
- John Mellencamp
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My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.
- John Mellencamp
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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
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When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.
- John Mellencamp
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'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new American couples, mixed-race couples. I thought it was cool. The song was my effort to make a song about that, but of course the record-company guy didn't like it.
- John Mellencamp
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I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
- John Mellencamp
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
- John Mellencamp
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Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.
- John Mellencamp
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I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.
- John Mellencamp
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I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.
- John Mellencamp
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My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.
- John Mellencamp
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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
- John Mellencamp
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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
- John Mellencamp
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I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.
- John Mellencamp
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'Crumbling' Down' is a very political song that I wrote with my childhood friend George Green. Reagan was president - he was deregulating everything, and the walls were crumbling down on the poor.
- John Mellencamp
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#Green
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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
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#Company
#People
#Young
I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds.
- John Mellencamp
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
- John Mellencamp
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
- John Mellencamp
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#Time
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Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
- John Mellencamp
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