- Benmont Tench: Fucking play it - we're musicians! We're in the goddamn rock and roll Hall of Fame. Play your fucking guitars! Jesus.
- Tom Petty: You're too reserved, you hold yourself in.
- Tom Petty: It's just like where you attract a real low-class group of people when you get enough dope around. Life started to get really lousy, and I felt lost. And that's the way it is with drugs. All it does really is make you want some more, you know. They're useless.
- [beat]
- Tom Petty: You don't have any drugs, do you?
- [On his legal fight against the record company]
- Tom Petty: The big guy comes in and goes, "Let me tell you something, kid. You're gonna forget this. You're gonna go make your records and shut up!" You know, I said, "Look... I'll sell fucking peanuts before I'll give in to you!"