John Mellencamp Quotes

Mama, why do I always fall for the crazy ones?

I’m not a nostalgic person. I’m not nostalgic about much of anything.

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus’ name; he don’t believe in killing at all.

I couldn’t have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn’t have the depth to pull these songs off.

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.

I need a lover that won’t drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy’s hand.

Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

I know there’s a balance, I see it when I swing past.

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

Grandma’s on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.