450 Quotes by Tom Waits

You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.

All that you’ve loved is all you own.

Oh I don’t mind going to weddings, just as long as it’s not my own...

I don’t like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, ‘Oh God, another one bites the dust.’

It’s hard to win when you always lose.

For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.

Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.

Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.