RIP Tom Petty

An act like ours wouldn't even be around today if someone hadn't brought us along and let us make mistakes and grow at our own pace.  Today it seems that if you don't have a hit -- or even if you do -- they have no use for you the next time.

-- Tom Petty (20 October 1950 - 2 October 2017), American singer-songwriter, Rolling Stone interview (2002)