You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

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.

The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.