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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.

Tom Waits

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
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
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
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
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
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
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
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
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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap

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