292 Quotes by Tom Petty

I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.

I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

The waiting is the hardest part.