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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
Hole
Your
You
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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. "
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Young
Age
Business
" 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
Great
Divided
Us
" '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
Green
Friend
Political
" We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. "
John Mellencamp
Class
School
Good
" I believe in something, even if it's just me. "
John Mellencamp
Believe
I Believe
Me
" 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
Afraid
Fail
Happen
" You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. "
John Mellencamp
Saying
You
Need
" If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect. "
John Mellencamp
People
Think
Know
" I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting. "
John Mellencamp
Want
Painting
Hole
" Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive. "
John Mellencamp
Long
Doing
You
" It sounds funny, but I always try to keep an open mind about what I'm writing about. Sometimes I squeak my opinions in there, but generally I don't. I try to be objective about things that I'm writing about. "
John Mellencamp
Mind
Funny
Writing
" 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
Know
Good
Beautiful
" Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. "
John Mellencamp
School
Fight
Long
" As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine. "
John Mellencamp
Matured
Songwriter
Realize
" I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had. "
John Mellencamp
Single
Been
Best
" I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money. "
John Mellencamp
Art
Money
New York
" Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll. "
John Mellencamp
You
Kid
Music
" When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. "
John Mellencamp
You
Live
Thinking
" I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. "
John Mellencamp
Like
Dirty
Petty
" 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
Live
Good
Story
" I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it. "
John Mellencamp
Song
Doing
Care
" I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. "
John Mellencamp
Music
Start
Thought
" 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
I Can
Songs
Worry
" When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality. "
John Mellencamp
Personality
Talk
Play
" What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other. "
John Mellencamp
Same
Guy
Difference
" This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don't even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego. "
John Mellencamp
Know
Ego
Think
" I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. "
John Mellencamp
My Own
Age
Way
" This is about black people selling out other black people. "
John Mellencamp
Selling
Other
Out
" I'm as left-wing as you can get. "
John Mellencamp
You
Get
Left-Wing
" 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
Song
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