John Mellencamp

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 –

But most people would go... Go outside, yeah.

But I'll tell you a funny story about Johnny Cash and me.

John and I knew each other, and I would go down and I would see him in Jamaica, and then he got really sick.

But John quit smoking, and John and I did...

did something for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And it's another funny story.

We were standing around doing, getting ready to do sound checking.