“All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.” ThinkingI CanCan DoInformationRepeats Author:John Mellencamp
“Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLongLinesForeverAliveTeenagerSixteenDisgusted Author:John Mellencamp
“Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.” ThinkingLongSchoolFightingTalkingTeacherAuthorityHigh SchoolSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:John Mellencamp
“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?” ThinkingGuySongAuthorityHost Author:John Mellencamp
“In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.” ThinkingTryingStoriesTodaySongMoved Author:John Mellencamp
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantGenerationsInformationTenHidingOur FutureCommandmentsFuture GenerationTen CommandmentsHiding Things Author:John Mellencamp
“You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.” ThinkingKnowsExplanationSmokingCigaretteTobaccoHeroinJerryQuit SmokingSmoking CigarettesTobacco Smoking Author:John Mellencamp
“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.” ThinkingKindWalksMinutesBeachBad ThingsJimmyBuffett Author:John Mellencamp
“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.” ThinkingTryingRecordsSellsRidiculousTeenagerMarketplace Author:John Mellencamp
“I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.” ThinkingDangerousInternetBombsDangerous ThingsAtomic Bomb Author:John Mellencamp
“I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.” IfsThinkingCountryCareSongRocksDon't CareI Don't Care Author:John Mellencamp
“When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.” PeopleThinkingHysteria Author:John Mellencamp
