John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Which means I can't read.
You should see my songwriting books.
It's absolutely terrible.
It looks like I have to have somebody now after I write a song.
I have to give it to somebody right away and let them copy it and I'll read it to them so that we can read what I wrote.
Because songwriting is not what people think it is.
But anyway, back to MTV.
And you couldn't go anywhere.
I would walk down the street and all I did was sign autographs and shake hands and I didn't like it at all.
Well, that'd be very weird.
Yeah, I mean, it was like...
You know, you've been in rock bands since you were 13.
And then all of a sudden, they did.
And, you know, it was the baby boomers coming of age.
And, you know, I was very fortunate, but unappreciative.
I figured out, just don't forget the critics hated me.