Tom Waits Quotes

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

It is an unhappy thing that in later years a Kind of Drink called Rum has been common among us. They that are poor and wicked, too, can for a penny make themselves drunk.

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.'

What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.