John Mellencamp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And like I said, I just woke up one day and just went, hey, this is all there is except it.
and try to show some humility and try to be good at it.
And I never thought about it again.
Well, I'm very lucky that, listen, Joe, you're looking at the luckiest fucking guy you've ever interviewed.
I don't give a shit who you've interviewed.
I'm the luckiest guy you know.
I was born with spina bifida.
Do you know what that is?
That's where you have a hole in your spine and the fluid and all of your nerve endings, like on me.
I was born with, you're born with spina bifida.
Well, they had to, well, here's the story.
I was, my parents were only 20 years older than me.
So I was born deformed.
And my parents didn't know what the fuck to do.
You know, what are we going to do with this kid?
So they just went like that to my grandmother.
And so I was in the hospital.