I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. Auteur: Tom Waits Copy Quote More from Tom Waits “using parking meters as walking sticks.” “Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.” “I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back” “He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up…”