“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them in a little box. And one day, I threw them out into the yard. "Oh, it's just a couple little innocent bad days." Well, we had a big rain. I don't know what it was growing in but I think we used to put eggshells out there and coffee grounds, too. Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me. Choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothin'. They're your days. Choke 'em!”

“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”

“Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since youtore me apart”

“Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)”

“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”

“I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.”