I only have so many summers left, and I intend not to waste them being old." With five children, several grandchildren, and his wild partying days way behind him, when it comes to settling down, John Mellencamp just might be singing a different tune these days. In a 2017 profile with CBS Sunday Morning, the youthful musician acknowledged he is keenly aware that life holds no guarantees, saying, "I can see the finish line from here. Photographers snapped the pair getting cozy over Memorial Day weekend 2021 in Malibu, but the couple didn't make it through Labor Day. Then, the Heartland rock star took up with realtor and Santa Barbara native Natasha Barrett ( per Page Six). That relationship was over soon after the ball dropped on New Year's Eve 2021. According to People, in 2020, Mellencamp did some quarantining in his Indiana home with Hollywood nurse and celebrity skin expert Jamie Sherrill. To read an extended transcript of Jane Pauley's interview with John Mellencamp click here.Following that, Mellencamp dated two more lovely California women, both introduced by his daughter, Teddi. And I intend not to waste them being old." "Now that I've said that, two weeks from now you're gonna read: 'Mellencamp dies of heart attack'!" "It's probably a wacky idea, but it comforts me!" Mellencamp said. He's got a strange theory: "Rightfully or wrongfully, I believe that it's the combination of cigarettes and alcohol that get people - the two of them combined."Īnd he hasn't had a drink, he says, since college. He says he doesn't worry so much about cigarettes and his health. I wanted to sound, you know, like Louis Armstrong. "Are you kidding me? Have you ever heard my voice, honey? It's fantastic! Are you kidding me? I sound like a black guy singing now." Don't you? Or is it just getting better and better?" He's been smoking, by the way, most of his life - since he was 10.Īs he looked for another cigarette, Pauley noted, "You have a voice to protect. The singer-songwriter credits cigarettes with giving him a voice like Louis Armstrong. He has five children, and nine grandkids. John Mellencamp was born in a small town Seymour, Indiana and he still lives outside another small town about 50 miles away, where. He's been linked in recent years to perennial cover girl Christie Brinkley and actress Meg Ryan - and before them, three wives. Apparently, women just don't like me very much. "What is the greatest lesson you've learned from the women in your life?" It's an acknowledged fact that relationships have been a struggle. John MellencampAmerican Fool 1982 John Mellencamp, under exclusive license to The Island Def Jam.If John Mellencamp sounds like one self-assured son-of-a-gun, she is the reason why: "Here's the trick, if you want a kid that has confidence: my grandmother told me every day of my life, 'Buddy, don't forget: you're the handsomest, luckiest, talented boy in the world.' The flip side of that is, it's really hard for girlfriends to compete with that!" he laughed. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupJack & Diane "When the Iraq War started, I was so against that." "Your fans are probably way, way, way on the spectrum to the right of you," said Pauley. Pays for thrills, the bills, the pills that kill "Pink Houses," for instance, is not a red-white-and-blue anthem:
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