The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor." — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking… — Tom Waits Copy Share
Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built. — Tom Waits Copy Share
For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take… — Tom Waits Copy Share
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits Copy Share
I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's… — Tom Waits Copy Share
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged… — Tom Waits Copy Share
There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not… — Tom Waits Copy Share
I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its… — Tom Waits Copy Share
