Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

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

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

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

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