Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. John Mellencamp More Quotes by John Mellencamp More Quotes From John Mellencamp His frustration running very high, he takes it out on the ones he loves because it's safe. John Mellencamp revenge running love-is The simple man, baby, pays for the thrills, the bills, and the pills that kill. John Mellencamp simple baby reality You can't tell your best buddy that you love him. John Mellencamp best-buddies buddy friendship I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places. John Mellencamp funny-people friendship people Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love. John Mellencamp friendship giving looks You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. John Mellencamp car guy choices 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. John Mellencamp single records wheels I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. John Mellencamp bombs internet thinking 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 league new-york art I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles. John Mellencamp mtv great-things radio This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it. John Mellencamp rocks writing song Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s. John Mellencamp music men country 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. John Mellencamp unemployment sky depression You shouldn't even be in a band if you can't play Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away. John Mellencamp hollies band play Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. John Mellencamp fighting teacher school 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. John Mellencamp kind beach thinking People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. John Mellencamp four people years The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. John Mellencamp dust dream death I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. John Mellencamp digging deeper 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 song trying thinking
