We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.