And on December 10th, he is releasing a massive box set containing 19 of his albums. He's also writing songs for his 20th studio album, which he'll begin recording with T Bone Burnett in January. Says Mellencamp, "I wanted to turn them into the kind of girls you would find dancing at the Savoy in 1931." In the painting, Ryan is wearing red clown makeup, and both are wearing white dresses, under the words the stardust sisters. He's 86 hours into a giant picture of Ryan and her friend Laura Dern, but he's not quite sure it's finished.
"I get up at 8:00, I have breakfast, I go to the art studio, and I don't come out until dark," he says. These days, Mellencamp, 62, spends much of his time in a large, bright room over a barn, painting. "I don't give a fuck about me, but I don't like it for ," he says. I can't see the trash on the streets." There's also the big-city paparazzi, who trail the couple. "I'm too sensitive to live there," he says. Moving to New York to be with his girlfriend, Meg Ryan, would solve the empty-nest problem, but Mellencamp says that's out of the question. I walk in now sometimes and go, 'Who loves their dad?' Nothin'." "I used to walk into my house and I could always go, 'Who loves their dad?' And throughout the house I'd hear Elaine go, 'I do!' Then I heard Hud go, 'I do!' and then Speck, 'I do!' It was this greeting that I always had. "Some nights it's weird," Mellencamp says. It has felt bigger since he split with his wife, Elaine Irwin, in 2010, and his two youngest children, Hud, 19, and Speck, 18, took off for college. John Mellencamp lives in a lakefront mansion at the edge of a wooded 65-acre estate outside Bloomington, Indiana.
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