John Mellencamp

It was amazing.

And what I find amazing, and I don't know why I find it amazing.

But I find it amazing that people relate to music in that fashion.

Because I didn't know that as a kid.

I just thought, you know, I thought I'd make two records and that'd be done.

That's why I stayed in Bloomington.

I had a little bit of money.

I didn't know how much more I'd have, you know, how much longer I was going to last.

So let's try to like buy a little house and

I'm good friends with Bruce, and him and I both kind of just look at each other and go, can you fucking believe it?

Because he's from a real little shitty town in New Jersey.

And we both just look at each other and go.

Can you believe it?

It's unbelievable.

Yeah, and the thing of it is that I sometimes ask my audience, I go, where are you right now?

And most of you probably say, I am at a John Mellencamp concert in Austin, Texas.

And my answer is yes, but also where you really are, you're on a fucking rock that's going around the fucking sun that has been here for millions of fucking years.

And so we are only here for a blink of an eye.

So stop worrying about everything so fucking much.

It doesn't fucking matter.