About Success :

|June 7, 2011 | Philosophy

Q : “I bet you’d find commercial success a little unsettling.”

Tom Waits : “Ok, I’m mistrustful of large groups of people enjoying anything together. You try to be careful that you don’t wind up in one of those darkly ironic situations where you’ve become the very thing you despise. What you want is a faucet and a sink for your popularity. Otherwise you don’t get a drink for six years, or the whole living room fills up with water. there’s very little in between.”