John Mellencamp Quotes - Page 2

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

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I fight authority and authority always wins.

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.

Now more than ever the world needs love, not just a slogan.

You have to reinvent yourself.

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

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.

You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.

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

Hold on to 16 as long as you can.

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

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

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 up. But I'm looking for trouble.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

There's a young man in a T-shirt listening to a rock and roll station. He's got greasy hair, greasy smile, he says, Lord this must be my destination.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.