214 Quotes by John Mellencamp

I’ve never had anybody produce my records. I’ve always produced my own records. I’ve worked with a guy for a while who was an engineer who helped me produce records, but I’ve always made my own records. I’m a control fanatic. I’ve got to control everything.

What’s the difference? One guy’s the same as the other.

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.

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

I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.

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?

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.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn’t mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They’ve known George Bush four.