I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
From Tom Waits
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.
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