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When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.

Tom Waits

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
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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Freedom Myself Science
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
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
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
People 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.
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People Scare Success Yourself
Don’t look back, because someone might be gaining on you.
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Back Sight Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
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Beautiful Melody Myself Terrible
My wife called me a mule. She once said, “I didn’t marry a man; I married a mule!” I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.
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Animal Goodness Man Marriage Myself Thinking Wife
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
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
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The 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.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play

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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