Tom Waits Way Quotations

I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

I was always laughing in church.

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.