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I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

Tom Waits

A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
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 them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
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Bad Difficult Myself Work
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.
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Abundance Beneath Bury Confusion Gun Happiness Information Knowledge Money Weapon Weight
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.

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