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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.

Tom Petty

I would never put my songs in a commercial.
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Commercial Myself Song
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
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Diamond King Money Sound
I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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Guitar Ideas Instrument Myself Play
Just wonderin’, waitin’, worryin’ about some silly little things, that just don’t add up to nothin’.
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Add Wait Wondering Worry Yourself
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.”
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Children Happiness Job Love Passion Yourself
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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Average Celebration Freedom Yourself
I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Incredible Lazy Myself
If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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Imagination Sale Yourself
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.
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Cool Light Myself Problem
Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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Dance Kill Myself Time Tired
Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
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Forgiveness Key Redeem
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.
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Decision Marriage Myself Worth
The waiting is the hardest part.
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Hard One Liner Patience
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.
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Hope Ideal Myself Thinking Weird
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
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Goodness Known Live Myself Past
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.
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Artist Believe Herself Responsibility

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