Tom Waits defines the difficult process of songwriting: “Songs don’t like being recorded”
“Set a trap for it.”
Tom Waits
The Innovators and the World Builders: Tom Waits named his favourite songs from the 1960s
Masters of the enigma.
‘Clap Hands’: St Vincent discusses the greatest guitar solos
“He’s virtuosic, but he’s an outsider artist”
“Certainly a craftsman”: Tom Waits on his underrated hero
“There are songwriters that I like that aren’t so well liked”.
Why Tom Waits hated Eagles covering his song: “As exciting as watching paint dry”
“I hate The Eagles.”
Tom Waits’ unique theory on songwriting: “Music is a living thing”
“Most American culture, we just bury things”.