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.

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

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.

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.

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.