When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of… — 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
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
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors.… — 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
