Quotes by : Tom Waits

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and....

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

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

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man....

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

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

The Universe is making music all the time.

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

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket.....