Tom Waits calls to tell me the album reminds him of a baked Alaska. I think about it and quickly deduce that comparing my album to flaming ice cream can only be the greatest of compliments coming from Tom Waits.
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Mark Oliver Everett (of The Eels) in his autobiography, “Things the Grandchildren Should Know”. Oh, Tom Waits. XD I just finished E’s autobiography and it was the best I’ve ever read. (via strayrhapsody) |
“Bob Dylan said that, when he was young, he had a secret sense of his destiny. I wish I had something like that, but I didn’t. At all. All I had was an aching sense of desperation and an acute cluelessness - a nasty combination. I didn’t have any idea what the hell I was doing, and was only doing it out of not knowing what else to do.”
-mark oliver everett
