This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song,… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things,… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
