Quotes by : Tom Waits

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes.....

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that....

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight....

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone....

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're....

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would....

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet....

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it....