There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.
Tom WaitsMost of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.
Tom WaitsWriting songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Tom WaitsJimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.
Tom Waits