Tom Petty Quotes

Here am I a fallen arrow.
My load is wide, my street is narrow.
My skin is thicker, my heart is tougher.
I don't mind workin', but I'm scared to suffer.
You know? You know?

I'm old enough to have lived in a country where, if you were willing to work hard, you could have a fairly nice life. You could support your family, and even get a shot at owning your own home. But you never thought you'd get a swimming pool. Now culture has hypnotised people into thinking they're really nothing if they're not wealthy and a Kardashian.

Little miss queen of hearts you're a strange thing.
Why you wanna stay so vague?
I'm wandering through this mess you've made
To see what I can save.

Look deep in the eyes of love
And find out what you were looking for.

I've got someone who loves me tonight.
I've got over a thousand dollars in the bank,
And I'm all right.

Oh my love if I reveal
Every secret I've concealed,
How many thoughts would you steal,
How much of my pain would you feel?

One more night, God I've had to fight
To keep my line of sight on what's real
One more day I fear I've lost my way
I don't know how to say what I feel.

I don't feel you anymore.
You darken my door.
Whatever you're looking for.
Hey don't come around here no more.

I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand.

You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting?

No. I think it affected my breaking my hand.

It's time to move on, time to get going
What lies ahead I have no way of knowing.
But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
It's time to move on, it' s time to get going.

So I started out for God knows where.
I guess I'll know when I get there.

I'm gonna give her all my soul.
I'm gonna play her Rock 'N' Roll.

Well she was an American girl, raised on promises.
She couldn't help thinkin' that there was a little more to life somewhere else.
After all, it was a great big world with lots of places to run to.
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin', she had one little promise she was gonna keep.

And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory.
God it's so painful, something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach.

Some days are diamonds.
Some days are rocks.