People say all kinds of things about the ingredients of songs. But you know they are a kind of magic, in the sense that they may easily include a stain on your bedroom wall... and a variety of mis-recollections. And then you name it after a girl's name that you just made up.
From Tom Waits
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
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.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.
The piano has been drinking, not me.
It's hard to win when you always lose.
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
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