Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Awards and accolades

In 1994 You Got Lucky a Tom Petty tribute album featuring such bands as Everclear and Silkworm was released. Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has also used a number of Rickenbacker guitars from 1979 onward notably a 1965 Rose Morris 1993 and 1987 reissue of the Rose Morris 1997 a 1967 360/12 and 1989 660/12TP.

In 2002 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T.