‘Everybody needs a different climate in which to create, like for some people it’s the sun streaming through the blinds, or the Rocky Mountains, or a room sanitized for your own protection.’
LA Free Press 1975 Los Angelas Is Poetry from Tom Waits on Tom Waits. Interviews and Encounters, Edited by Paul Maher.
Things In My Head 
And some creative organisms are adapted to a fog of nicotine and a blizzard of bourbon, eh Tom?
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Hard to believe that he actually gave up drinking and smoking when he got married. Then again, he’d been smoking since he was eleven. He’s quite domesticated these days is our Tom. You could say, Tom got spayed.
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