The hot line: Tom Waits muses on when he'll see David Letterman again

May 22, 2015 at 3:48PM
Tom Waits in Petaluma, Calif., Oct. 12, 2011. Waits has a new album, "Bad as Me," which is his first full set of new songs since "Real Gone" in 2004. (Drew Kelly/The New York Times) -- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE OCT. 23, 2011.
Tom Waits in Petaluma, Calif., Oct. 12, 2011. Waits has a new album, "Bad as Me," which is his first full set of new songs since "Real Gone" in 2004. (Drew Kelly/The New York Times) -- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE OCT. 23, 2011. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

« I don't know when I will see Dave again. I guess from now on we'll have to settle for bumping into each other at Pilates. »

Tom Waits on his last appearance on "Late Show With David Letterman"

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