I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
TOM PETTYGo after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.
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I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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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.
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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.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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God, it’s so painful when something that’s so close is still so far out of reach.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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I like a good beer. Of course, I’ll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel’s remedy.
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I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
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