Iโve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
Tom WaitsWhen the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.
Tom WaitsYour old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On
Tom WaitsWhen I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.
Tom Waits