Tom Waits Quotes

So. Are you guys here to convert me or sell me siding?

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Music is reflection of self.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

The media sells it and you live the role.

She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

Too much information about nothing.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.