You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
TOM WAITS
TOM WAITS
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You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I don’t go to church on Sunday, don’t get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way
Tom WaitsTom Waits On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
Tom WaitsTom Waits The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I was always laughing in church.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
Tom WaitsTom 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
Tom WaitsTom Waits I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
Tom WaitsTom Waits She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
Tom WaitsTom 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.
Tom WaitsTom Waits 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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