When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

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.