214 Quotes by John Mellencamp

When you live life for yourself it’s hard on everyone. And that hasn’t changed. For me, if anything, it’s gotten worse.

I’m trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

All I’m doing is painting. It’s my hobby. And that’s that.

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

Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that’s it.

If you hide information from people, don’t want people to see the Ten Commandments or don’t want people to hear about Darwin, aren’t we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that’s incorrect.

Your Life Is Now!

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