Relevant excerpt from a funny interview:
After dinner, we take a little constitutional around the grounds. Petty is a little unsteady on his feet these days – his right knee bows a bit, and he has a tendency to get excited when he's telling a story and start hopping around and stumble. "You've gotta work harder to stay fit," he says of getting older. "But I'm lucky because my job tends to keep me a bit younger than, say, people I knew from school. I'll run into them and be like, 'Whoa. Who's that old ****er?' "
He's not much of a party animal; last night he fell asleep watching A Hard Day's Night in bed. He doesn't have many vices: He's never been a big drinker ("I didn't like the taste or the buzz, and I can't stand being around drunks") and he never really got into cocaine ("I mean, I went through the Eighties like everybody, but cocaine was never a good look"). "I'm mostly just a reefer guy," he says. "It's a musical drug." He laughs at the idea of a prescription, though. "I've had a pipeline of marijuana since 1967."
Petty is a history buff and a fan of Thomas Jefferson. He says one of his favorite things to do whenever he's in Washington, D.C., is to "wait until it's really late, get stoned, go to the Jefferson Memorial, and just sit there and read the walls. I've done that a few times."
Actually, Petty does have one other bad habit, and that's cigarettes. He's been smoking since he was 17, and though he's down to less than a pack a day, he doesn't even bother pretending he's trying to quit. "I'm an addict, man," he says. "I'm a sick ****. I don't light up in the car because people get upset. But I don't understand why I can't light up in a bar or park. I think that's yuppie shit."
Tom Petty Still Won't Back Down
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/tom-petty-still-wont-back-down-20151020
R.I.P. 66 is still a pretty good run for a rock star.
