Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Read full biography of Benmont Tench →
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith... →
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
I've always written songs since I was a kid - always.
I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.
I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down... →
I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all... →
Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else... →
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you... →
You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you... →
I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out... →
Benjamin Montmorency "Benmont" Tench III (born September 7, 1953) is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.