More From Tom Waits
- "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."
- "Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can’t think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder."
- "You hope people are going to be listening to you after you’re gone. And they like you better after you’re gone."
More In Power
- "Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies."― Don DeLillo
- "Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too."― Margaret Mahy
- "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."― Kenny Loggins