I dont treat the band like Im above them or that theyre a hired hand for me. Weve never worked that way. So Im a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone. – Tom Petty
Its funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they cant afford the music. – Tom Petty
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, youve always got a different ache or pain. – Tom Petty
The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. Its the biggest jolt of adrenaline. Its very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? Its in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it. – Tom Petty
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907