As I’ve matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it’s out there, it’s mine. John Mellencamp Read Quote
Everything I see and hear… I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I’m always looking for a song. John Mellencamp Read Quote
If I’m painting, I paint every day. I’ll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night. John Mellencamp Read Quote
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. John Mellencamp Read Quote
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 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 Read Quote
Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing. John Mellencamp Read Quote
People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They’ve known George Bush four. John Mellencamp Read Quote
