John Mellencamp Quotes
I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

Quotes to Explore
-
I will keep working hard!
-
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
-
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
-
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
-
Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
-
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
-
I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
-
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
-
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
-
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
-
Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
-
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
-
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
-
I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
-
We don't know what we don't know about Ebola. We think we know it's a virus, but is it mutating? Can it be spread by airborne?
-
Syd's story is a sad story romanticised by people who don't know anything about it. They've made it fashionable but it's just not that way.
-
Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.
-
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
-
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
-
I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.