I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin.

I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.

I’ve never met anyone who made it with a chick because they owned a Tom Waits album. I’ve got all three, and it’s never helped me.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.