John Mellencamp

So how old were you in 1981?

14.

Yeah, high school.

Yeah, you were there.

Yeah.

That's great.

See, that's great.

And I love hearing...

you know, guys your age talk about it because it's just like, I didn't know what the fuck I was doing.

And the fact that that song today, I had somebody tell me, one of the nicest things anybody said to me was that, John, there was Romeo and Juliet, there was Frankie and Johnny, and now there's Jack and Diane.

And you've joined, those two kids have joined those people of importance in American culture.

Think about it.

Now, who would have fucking thought that some dumbass like me

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.

God.

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.

Well, there you go.

But you were an actor before.