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 PETTYIf you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
TOM PETTYI’ve never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I’m pleasantly surprised when it does.
TOM PETTYMusic really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
TOM PETTYRedemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.
TOM PETTYSome grow young, some grow cold.
TOM PETTYI 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 PETTYI don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
TOM PETTYIt’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music.
TOM PETTYMost things I worry about never happen anyway.
TOM PETTYYou were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.
TOM PETTYI have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.
TOM PETTYYou believe what you want to believe.
TOM PETTYI’m so tired of being tired. Sure as night will follow day most things I worry about will never happen anyway.
TOM PETTYEvery verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
TOM PETTYWhat I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
TOM PETTYI developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
TOM PETTY