John Mellencamp

So I figured...

How do you reach a lot of people?

By being on the radio.

So keep it simple, stupid.

So I would write, like I had a song called Hurt So Good.

Do you remember that song?

Yeah, Hurt So Good.

I wrote that in the shower.

And I came out real quick and I wrote it down and then I had somebody write it down and I remembered the melody and I sang it to a tape machine.

I got so many funny stories.

I was down in Criteria, which was in Florida, in Miami, and

You know, it was the early 80s, and so we had this, and Criteria had five or six studios, and you know, there were like, I don't know, all kind of bands.

The Bee Gees were over here, and this band was over here.

And we had the studio blocked out,

But we wouldn't show up.

We had other things to do.

There was a place called Scaramouche that had the prettiest girls you ever saw in your life.

So it was like we did not have time to go to the studio because we had been up till daybreak at Scaramouche.

So I was spending a lot of fucking money by now.

And it was like, maybe at the time, a half a million dollars.