Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them… — 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 Image
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 Image
“an all time favorite: "The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.” — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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 Image
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
