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" I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company. "
John Mellencamp
My Own
People
Long
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" I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds. "
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" If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. "
John Mellencamp
Love
Community
Compassion
" 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
Who
Guy
Authority
" This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. "
John Mellencamp
Rock
Emote
Write
" 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
Time
Sunday
She
" 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
" I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music. "
John Mellencamp
Money
Art
Time
" Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy? "
John Mellencamp
You
Wait
Think
" Sound quality was supposed to be one of the big selling points for CDs but, as we know, it wasn't very good at all. It was just another con, a get-rich-quick scheme, a monumental hoax perpetrated on the music consuming public. "
John Mellencamp
Big
Selling
Quality
" American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood. "
John Mellencamp
Right
Tragedy
American
" I'm as left-wing as you can get. "
John Mellencamp
You
Get
Left-Wing
" '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
Cool
American
Thought
" I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace. "
John Mellencamp
Ridiculous
Sell
Teenagers
" '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
" 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
Good
Like
Away
" 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
Try
Think
Forward
" When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions. "
John Mellencamp
Decisions
Afraid
Emotional
" I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society. "
John Mellencamp
Think
Society
See
" The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. "
John Mellencamp
Greed
Expectation
Sales
" 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
" Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just expected that Bob Dylan was going to make a great record, and it was normal. It was like, 'Okay, here's another great record by Bob Dylan; here's another great record by Led Zeppelin.' "
John Mellencamp
Culture
Okay
Music
" I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums. "
John Mellencamp
Good
Think
Voice
" Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing. "
John Mellencamp
Everything
Hands
Nothing
" 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
" People have the right to say what they want to. "
John Mellencamp
Say
Want
People
" I believe in something, even if it's just me. "
John Mellencamp
Believe
I Believe
Me
" As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine. "
John Mellencamp
Matured
Songwriter
Realize
" 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 wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded. "
John Mellencamp
Keep
Grandmother
Me
" When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. "
John Mellencamp
Fear
Enemy
Playing