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 dont want to be a politician. I dont like politics. Its petty it fights dirty. – John Mellencamp
Do I think its OK to fight authority as long as youre only talking about the high school teacher? No. – John Mellencamp
I want to sell to people my own age, because thats the way I write songs. – John Mellencamp
I think theres a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but hes also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. – John Shelton Reed