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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Tom Waits

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.
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Market Myself Nervous Open People See Yourself
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.
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Cross Wood
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
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 always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
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
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
The Universe is making music all the time.
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Music Time Universe
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I can’t listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You’re just processing too much, there’s no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.
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Listening Music Mysekf Place Procession Time
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

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