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"I used to have these soul-searching nights where I'd lie awake and think, 'When it's all over, all you've gonna leave behind is the records. That's all the fuck you're doing.'"

- Tom Petty

Did You Know...

...that Tom Petty wrote a song called "Reptiles" about "what scumsuckers lawyers are"?

...that Hard Promises had a working title of Benmont's Revenge?

...that Tom Petty and Stan Lynch got into an altercation with the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten?

Random Quote

"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