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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.

Tom Waits

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
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
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight 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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Food High Myself Table Trade
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
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

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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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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