“I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.” KindReasonYoungWaitingCareersTomsBackwards Author:Sylvie Simmons
“Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.” GivingSelfCharacterWaitingStrangeConversationSpeechComfortableSeriesWitTalesJournalistAdsTomsAnecdotesSelf Deprecating Author:Sylvie Simmons
