“Pitchfork: Is the car generally a place to write for you?
TW: A good one. You’re enclosed, you’re alone, you’re quiet. Perfect. There’s a feeling of a vanishing point. And you’re moving, like a song moves as it’s going through the tape machine. It’s like combing your hair with the highway.”
Pitchfork interviews Tom Waits, who has a new album, Bad as Me, out next week. His new songs are shorter, as his wife told him to “Get in, get out. No fucking around.”
