Tom Waits : (5)

" 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 wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. " - Tom Waits

" 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. " - Tom Waits

" George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. " - Tom Waits

" 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. " - Tom Waits

" I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have. " - Tom Waits