Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSMost of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITSThe devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand.
TOM WAITSThe piano has been drinking, not me.
TOM WAITSI hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
TOM WAITSI 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.
TOM WAITSThere’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
TOM WAITSI like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
TOM WAITSI put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
TOM WAITSI have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
TOM WAITSI’m the type of guy who’d sell you a rat’s asshole for a wedding ring.
TOM WAITSAll the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
TOM WAITSPeople get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
TOM WAITSThe earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
TOM WAITSI’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
TOM WAITSChildren 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.
TOM WAITSNew York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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