Tom Waits Quotes:
Ocupation: Singer-songwriter
Life: b. December 7, 1949
Birthday: December 7
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
source: "Tom Waits Spills the Beans to Tom Waits". Interview with Joan Anderman, www.boston.com. May 22, 2008. 
topic: Reality, Men, Imagination, Sugar Cane, Bulbs, Blind Man
