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I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old,…

— Sylvie Simmons

I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

— Oscar Isaac

I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.

— Bob Seger

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time…

— Toby Jones

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a…

— Sid Waddell

“Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds…

— John Irving

Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.

— Martin Frost

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

— Peter Weir

I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare…

— Matt Bellamy

Tom Waits is someone who has really struck me, ever since I was a kid. He's really a big deal for me.

— Brian Fallon

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an…

— Michael Herr

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche