I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an art… - Tom Petty

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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. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.

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Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys.

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Birth Name: Thomas Earl Petty

Alternative Names: Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. • Muddy Wilbury • Charlie T. Jnr Wilbury

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She's a woman in love
And he's gonna break her heart to pieces.
She don't want to see.
She's a woman in love, but it's not me.

And I'd show you stars you never could see
Baby, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me.

I don't want to end up
In a room all alone
Don't want to end up someone
That I don't even know.

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