214 Quotes by John Mellencamp

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I want to sell to people my own age, because that’s the way I write songs.

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.

I have a bunch of information in my head that I’m not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.