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John Mellencamp quotes - page 2
What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.
John Mellencamp
My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed 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
It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.
John Mellencamp
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
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
John Mellencamp
I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
John Mellencamp
People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.
John Mellencamp
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.
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
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
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
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
All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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
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