Casa Robino

From an interview with Tom Waits by Elizabeth Gilbert -
He was driving along the freeway in Los Angeles. All of a sudden he hears a melody. Tantalising…he wants it. But he doesn’t have a tape recorder, he doesn’t have a pencil. All his old anxiety begins to rise in him. I’m going to lose it, he thinks. I’ll be haunted by this thing forever. I won’t be good enough. I won’t be able to do it. But instead of panicking, he just stops and finishes his thoughts.He looks up to the sky and exclaims, ‘excuse me, can’t you see that I’m driving? Do I look like I can write down a song right now? Look, if you really want to exist, come back at a more opportune moment when I can take care of you, otherwise go bother someone else today…like Leonard Cohen’.