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

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Jesus Christ, this godamn rain, will someone put me on a train.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs