- Jerry Hubbard: Tom, where do you hail from professionally? Is it the Big Apple as they call New York, I think? Or is it Hollywood?
- Tom Waits: I live at Bedlam and Squalor.
- [points]
- Tom Waits: It's that way.
- Barth Gimble: I think we've all lived there at one time. It's kinda strange to have a guy sitting here with a bottle in front of him.
- Tom Waits: Well, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.