“Jerry Hubbard: Tom, where do you hail from professionally? Is it the Big Apple as they call New York, I think? Or is it Hollywood?

Tom Waits: I live at Bedlam and Squalor. It's that way.

Barth Gimble: I think we've all lived there at one time. It's kinda strange to have a guy sitting here with a bottle in front of him.

Tom Waits: Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”