John Mellencamp
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would write a fucking song as a child when I first started writing songs and create those two characters that made such an impression on everybody.
And they didn't like me.
Jack and Diane was fucking huge.
Joe, look at, I don't know that much about your career, but look at your career and look at what suits have said to you and how wrong they were.
But you were an actor before.
See, and you know what?
I walk in my house sometimes and I look around and think, I get to fucking live here.
I get to fucking live here.
I think that all the time, yeah.
And how lucky I am to have had that kind of success from such a horrible beginning as Johnny Cougar.
And, you know, to be able to, you know—
Dude, I've done what I wanted to do ever since I decided, fuck you guys.
After American Fool came out and those songs became hits, nobody has ever said shit to me about anything.
Well, they realized they were wrong.