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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.

Tom Waits

You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Average Change Life Person Time Traffic
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
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Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
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
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet

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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