“What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you ...” — John Mellencamp Quote

“What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.”

“Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.”

“If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.”

“People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.”

“Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.”

“Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.”