Tom Petty
Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Pettyis an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys, and his early band Mudcrutch...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 October 1950
CityGainesville, FL
CountryUnited States of America
I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
I have never been comfortable being the front man.
I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.
I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.
I'm always having fun. Playing is fun. Music is fun.
I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
I like making money like anybody else, and I'm paid well, but I think there is a point at which you can out-price your audience or your base.
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
The waiting is the hardest part.
Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.
I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.