I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

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

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.