John Mellencamp

Because New York in the early 70s,

broke and there were prostitutes and pimps and everything everywhere you know and homeless people which reminds me you guys got a lot of homeless guys here there's a few it's not as bad as la

Everybody here must love—I'm not putting Austin down.

I played here about three years ago.

But everybody must love graffiti here.

And that's the thing about graffiti.

I don't mind if you want to destroy somebody else's property, but at least do something original because it all looks the same.

You know, it's big letters and outlined in – it's done in black and outlined in yellow.

And it's the same fucking shit you see in New York or Los Angeles.

It's the same.

Right.

If you're going to be an artist, be an artist.

But it wasn't that way the first time I came to Austin.

So you decided on Fear Factor.

You go stay in here for three days and you win.

Well, there is a law in this country called vagrancy.

Mm-hmm.

Well, it would be—let me tell you something.

If you grew up in Seymour, Indiana, it's enforceable.

Because if you stand uptown too long, which all kids did back then, the cops would come up and go, hey, you've been here for three hours.