Tom Waits - Thought For The Day and "HOLD ON"

 

Tom Waits: “Sometimes it’s hard to separate the two identities”,  “I may exaggerate a little onstage, but I’m not trying to be anyone else but me. I try not to be compromising and condescending. I talk about things I know about. Deep down inside there isn’t a man wearing a leisure suit." 

“I live in a run-down hotel—the Tropicana. All room rents paid in advance. The other people who live there are four-speed automatic transvestites, unemployed firemen, dikes, hoods, hookers, sadists, masochists, Avon ladies on the skids, reprieved murderers, ex-bebop singers and one-armed piano players. The whole gambit—lock, stock, and bagels."

Dallas Morning News November 13, 1977

Maher, Paul. Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

Hold On (Mule Variations)