292 Quotes by Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.