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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

Tom Waits

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
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
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
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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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
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Bible Devil Hands Himself Religious
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
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
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don’t get out much. It’s true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.
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Admire Death Feeling People
I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’
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Commercial Oneself Song
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself

I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.

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