Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

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.

Any place is good for eavesdropping, if you know how to eavesdrop.

Tom Waits Quotes