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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
John Mellencamp
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John Mellencamp
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 7
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Indiana
John Cougar Mellencamp
John J. Mellencamp
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I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.
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Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name he don't believe in killing at all.
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For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?
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I've never fit in in any music world. I've always been an outsider. I mean, the fact that I live in Indiana - I live in a fly-over state... I'm not running away from anything, that's the problem. Most people go to cities because they don't like where they come from.
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