I got my own way of praying.
TOM PETTYIf you’re not getting older, you’re dead.
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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.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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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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When you kill somebody’s little sister with a missile, he’s going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.
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I love the music. I’m never, ever tired of playing it.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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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.
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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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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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’m tired of screwing up. I’m tired of being down. I’m tired of myself. I’m tired of bein’ down.
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I’m not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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Most things I worry about never happen anyway.
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