"I read the other day that video games are taking 15 billion dollars directly our of the record business. As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather put seven dollars' worth of quarters into a Pac-Man machine than into some dip-shit album."
...that after leaving the Heartbreakers in the early 1980s, Ron Blair ran a swimwear shop?
...that Tom Petty shortened his name because "Tommy Petty" didn't look right on the record?
...that a prankster modified one of Mike Campbell's effect pedals to yell "GO GATORS"?
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"Well—it's self- respect, really. You have to believe in yourself to have something to stand for, something to offer—or nothin's gonna happen for you. It's the American ideal that you can achieve almost anything if you put your mind to it, that you can get what you want if you just want it enough and you're prepared to tough it out. Which is probably true—I think it's true, anyway."
