Best 92 quotes of John Mellencamp on MyQuotes

All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

All my friends are so small town.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

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.

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success.

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

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.

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe.

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

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.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

I do things my way and I pay a high price.

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.

I fight authority and authority always wins.

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.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

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.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music.

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?

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

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.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

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

I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be able to sell millions and millions of players, and people will have to restock their record collections. It was all about money. It was all about how much money we would make, "we" being "him.

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.

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.

I've never had anybody produce my records. I've always produced my own records. I've worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I've always made my own records. I'm a control fanatic. I've got to control everything.

I want you to dance naked, if you like, I'll join you.

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.

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.