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I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.

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I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

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Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.

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Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

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I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.

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I'm as left-wing as you can get.

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A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

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I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

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Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

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I ended up writing songs and growing up in public with my songwriting. And it's a good thing for me back then: in the early '70s, there was a thing called artist development, where an artist could find his feet, find himself, find his voice. I think I made five or six albums before I sold five or six albums.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 7th, 1951

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