Tom Waits - Reality is for people who can't face drugs

our next guest is one of the most distinctive writers and performers working today he's kind of a combination poet jazz singer and vagrant he is a mix mixture of Satchmo Armstrong and Humphrey Bogart ladies and gentlemen please welcome Tom Waits how are you Tom better than nothing yeah where do you hail from professionally is it the Big Apple as they call New York I think or is it Hollywood do I live the bedlam and squalor you classify yourself as a poet or as a singer which one do you like to be blessed by now I'm a Methodist how does a guy with a voice like that decide to be a singer and succeed well I was a choice between entertainment and a career in air conditioning and refrigeration if you ever live in a car in LA well for a brief time I think everybody's lived in a car kind of strange I have guys sitting here with a bottle in front of him I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy in your high school about the strongest drug that you'll find you there's pimple cream reality is for people who can't face drugs hey I got people working for you and everything that's art you know you can ask for anything you want on this show and we'll have someone go out and get it for you Christ what was writing with Keith Richards like well you know you always finish something yeah you might finish the bottle might not he might not finish the song what were your parents like my father was an exhaust manifold and my mother was a tree or worried about achievement yeah I worry about a lot of things but I don't worry about evening no I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in heaven

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Views: 4,648,960

Rating: 4.92939 out of 5

Keywords: Tom Waits (Musical Artist), Funny

Id: nr1afoSEzhY

Length: 2min 4sec (124 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 30 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/kellik123]

Tom Waits is great, love his style.

[u/village___rapist]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

[u/FuzzerPupper]

I quit using drugs, instead I got me a chocolate jesus, make me feel good inside

[u/RoadmanWithDaSpliff]

"I worry about, if there are nightclubs in heaven" Gold

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https://youtu.be/2lY2ieQ7paA every time I see Tom waits I think of this

[u/Rizzle45]

I first found Tom waits on Detroit access television last Christmas while shit faced and he's been with me for trip music ever since. Chocolate jesus