John Mellencamp Quotes

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

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

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not nostalgic about much of anything.

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

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.

Hold on to 16 as long as you can.

What we do to each other are the worst things that we do.

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

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

All my friends are so small town.

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.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

My voice has gotten better from smoking.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

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

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

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

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

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.

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.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill.

Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.

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

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.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

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

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

The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed 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.

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

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.

She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.

Rock'n'roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

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?

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

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

I fight authority and authority always wins.

Most people in life, give up too early.

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.

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.