John Mellencamp

Because you get older and they get all smudgy.

I owned a tattoo parlor in, I don't know what year it was, mid-'80s, and they were illegal in Indiana.

But because it was me, they said, okay, leave him alone.

Yeah, I—

I didn't know it was illegal, but I met this guy in L.A., and he worked at Sunset, you know, where the Hyatt House is, and there was a tattoo parlor right across the street.

Anyway, he was there.

And so I brought him to Bloomington because he wanted to get out of L.A., and guess why they closed me down?

Why?

The fucking guy was a heroin addict.

I know.

And he did this tattoo one time, and I went over.

I just went over to the shop.

I said, hey, let's do this little.

And he was all fucked up.

And it was just like, what's wrong with it?

Because I didn't know.

I don't know anything about heroin addicts.

The first time I saw somebody do heroin was...

I was in college and there was a place called Bull Island that tried to imitate Woodstock.

And me and my then wife and my kid, my little girl, and my roommate who lived with us, we're just walking down there and we see this guy shooting up.