I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITSI don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
TOM WAITSI’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
TOM WAITSYou 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?
TOM WAITSThe ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITSYou can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITSWe 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.
TOM WAITSI was always laughing in church.
TOM WAITSWe have a deficit of wonder right now.
TOM WAITSThe way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITSYou can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSI sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
TOM WAITSBut it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
TOM WAITSI guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
TOM WAITSDon’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
TOM WAITSIt’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
TOM WAITS