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Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Tom Waits

I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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
it ain’t no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones
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Bone Dance Sin Skin Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
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Gentle Man Play
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
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
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
If you get far enough away you’ll be on your way back home.
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Enough Far Home Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself

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