"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."
- Tom Petty
...that Tom Petty shortened his name because "Tommy Petty" didn't look right on the record?
...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?
...that the concrete slab bearing Tom Petty's handprints, intended for a Gainesville Walk of Fame, eventually ended up sitting in a garage?
"Well, I don't usually get too excited about bands but I'm real excited about this one."
