Tom Petty Quotes

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

The sense of waking up in the morning and knowing that there is music ahead of me in the day is such an incredible feeling. The more I engage with music the more days I wake up and know that that's what's going to be there, and the things that come with music.

Choosing a job or business is the same thing. I'm not the best one to advise someone how to make billions of dollars; I don't know how to do that. But what I do know is how to create something that you love, and once you do that, you will have success. You just will because you'll love working on it, and anything truly authentic, the universe blesses.

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.