John Mellencamp

Yeah.

My girlfriend hates that I fucking smoke.

Of course, she knew I was smoking when she met me.

But now that we've been together for three years, and my wife of 20 years, Elaine, never smoked a cigarette in her life until she met me, and then she started smoking.

She, on one hand, just said, well, fuck it.

If you can't beat them, join them.

So she started smoking.

But Kristen hates cigarettes, and...

I don't know what to tell her because, you know, I don't do much good, but I'm really a good smoker.

They're part of me.

I don't know how to put it.

I mean, I smoked my first cigarette at 10.

Yeah.

And you're okay.

I was addicted in high school.

Wow.

I used to wake up in the morning, and my parents had a great big house, and I would go down in the basement, go into the fucking storm cellar and smoke, not knowing that I came out of that little area smelling like a cigarette ashtray.

Right.

But they never said anything.

Well, it's amazing how much cigarettes take you away from – because you've got to –