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… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. — 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
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can'… — 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
I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb, — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin,… — 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
