John Mellencamp

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.