Tom Petty

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I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times
- Tom Petty
Collection: Good Times
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The waiting is the hardest part.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Expression
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Girl
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If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Love
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Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Religious
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I'm certainly not a Robin Hood, I'm not that way. I don't want to come through, burn everybody for $200 a ticket and then they can't afford to come see me again. Plus, I just don't think it's right. I don't think we need that much money. I just do what seems like the logical thing to do.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Thinking
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That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Fun
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I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Tree
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Art
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You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Jobs
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I've always had a great love for the blues.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Great Love
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Honey, don't walk out, I'm too drunk to follow.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Drunk
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Men
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You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Running
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Kings
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I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Tired
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I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Fun
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I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Couple
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Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Found You
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Let's get to the point Let's roll another joint
- Tom Petty
Collection: Weed
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Some grow young, some grow cold...
- Tom Petty
Collection: Cold
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I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Tired
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I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."
- Tom Petty
Collection: Jobs
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My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Rock And Roll
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I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Fun
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I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Moon
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I got my own way of praying.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Religious
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'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Song
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Heart
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And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Wind
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Inspirational
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.
- Tom Petty
Collection: God Knows
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But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Friendship
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I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past
- Tom Petty
Collection: Past
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Perspective
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There's a freeway running through the yard.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Running
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Believe
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I'm so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Tired
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I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Expression
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Party
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Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Heart
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Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Keys
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Evil
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God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Sadness
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A rebel without a clue.
- Tom Petty
Collection: Art