I don't know what the 'big time' is.

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

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

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand...