You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. Im not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice. – John Mellencamp
I want to sell to people my own age, because thats the way I write songs. – John Mellencamp
I dont want to be a politician. I dont like politics. Its petty it fights dirty. – John Mellencamp
You know, its cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks its heroin, but it wasnt. It was cigarettes. – John Mellencamp
Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didnt. You either moved an abandoned car or you didnt. You either filled a pothole or you didnt. Thats what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done. – Michael Nutter