I don't know if any genuine meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken Catastrophe and Eggs Overwhelming and a tall, cool Janitor-in-a-Drum. I like to walk out of a restaurant with enough gas to open a Mobil station.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

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

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