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" What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other. "

John Mellencamp

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" 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. "

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" This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded. "

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" 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. "

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" When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. "

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" In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. "

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" When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. "

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" I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company. "

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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? "

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" Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. "

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" 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. "

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" I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing. "

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" I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. "

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" People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. "

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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. "

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" As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" People have the right to say what they want to. "

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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. "

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" I used to think that eating healthy was ordering a fish sandwich at McDonalds. "

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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. "

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