Interviewer:
You, you went through a self destructive period in your life. You know

Tom Waits:
Gee, I don't know. Yeah, I guess perhaps I did. Uh... Yeah.

Interviewer:
I mean, alcohol, drugs, you know.

Tom Waits:
Everything, baby.

Interviewer:
You...in this album, there are so many references to death.

Tom Waits:
Oh yeah.

Interviewer:
Mmhmmm. (laughs) Have you ever come very close to suicide?

Tom Waits:
Me?

Interviewer:
Mmmm, who else?

Tom Waits:
I've thought about it. Everybody's thought about it.