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It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.

Tom Waits

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Break Cry Hard Time Laughter Life People Situation Worst Yourself
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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Music Myself Song Wind
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
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Brave Captain Devil Light Wicket Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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Inspirational Money Musician Need Play Stage Wallet Yourself
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train

It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.

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