Tom Waits
[Musician, b. 1949, Pomona, California, lives in Sonoma County, California.]
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
Sun come up it was blue and gold
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame.
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame.
Anton brings the camera. I’ll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)