Tom Petty

I've always had a great love for the blues.

— Tom Petty

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

— Tom Petty

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

— Tom Petty

A rebel without a clue.

— Tom Petty

You believe what you want to believe

— Tom Petty

Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

— Tom Petty

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

— Tom Petty

Buy me a drink, sing me a song; take me as I come, cause I can't stay long.

— Tom Petty

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

— Tom Petty

I have never been comfortable being the front man.

— Tom Petty

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

— Tom Petty

God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.

— Tom Petty

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

— Tom Petty

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

— Tom Petty

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

— Tom Petty

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

— Tom Petty

'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem.…

— Tom Petty

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

— Tom Petty

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you…

— Tom Petty

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their…

— Tom Petty

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

— Tom Petty

My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying…

— Tom Petty

When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics…

— Tom Petty

An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel…

— Tom Petty

You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you…

— Tom Petty

When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know.…

— Tom Petty

The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a…

— Tom Petty

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really…

— Tom Petty

When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at…

— Tom Petty

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

— Tom Petty

She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.

— Tom Petty

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times

— Tom Petty

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

— Tom Petty

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

— Tom Petty

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

— Tom Petty

When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working.

— Tom Petty

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

— Tom Petty

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

— Tom Petty

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

— Tom Petty

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

— Tom Petty