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“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

Tom Waits

“I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way”

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Books , Way

“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”

Tom Waits

Interview All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008

Money , Happiness , Wealth , Knowledge

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human experience, when it should inspire and elevate.”

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Interviewed by J. T. LeRoy, "Strange Innocence," Vanity Fair, July 2001

World , Suffering

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”

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"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).

God

“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”

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"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).

Drink , Problem

“I'm so goddamn horny, the crack of dawn better be careful around me!”

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Nighthawks at the Diner (1975).

“Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”

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People , Feeling , Dead

“It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.”

Tom Waits

Interviewed on Fresh Air, 2002-05-21 http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=5-21-2002.
Context: I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really— composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it. It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again. But when you live together, it makes it a lot easier, the pay back.