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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
Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
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Dreams Instagram Captions One Liner Rainbow Sing Steal
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
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Myself Prayer Religious
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
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
I’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
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Guy Ring Sell Type
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
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano

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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