John Mellencamp Quotes
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I'm a proud family man.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.
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Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.
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The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
