The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
Tom WaitsI’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
Tom WaitsI'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 WaitsThe average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
Tom WaitsI saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits