WAITS: Well, you know, I hadn't really listened to him until I had people tell me that I sounded somewhat like him or had some influence in there. ![]() So I said, well, I better start listening to this stuff. It's really - a lot of it's really angry. And I guess I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. GROSS: The arrangements for your songs are really good. WAITS: Well, I collaborate with my wife on the songs and every aspect of it, really, from composing and arranging, recording, all that business. GROSS: What came first to you - for you, being married or being song collaborators? WAITS: But, you know, when you live together, you know, it makes a lot easier, the payback, you know? It's kind of like borrowing the same 10 bucks from somebody over and over again, you know? So, you know, we have a rhythm and a way of working. See my - you know, we started working together after we got married, I think. And we got - actually, my wife had $50 on her, and I had 20, when we got married, and it was a $70 wedding. So I actually thought, this is not a good way to start. WAITS: We got married about 1 o'clock in the morning out in Watts. GROSS: What was the music that you grew up listening to because your parents were listening to it? I mean, before you were old enough to choose music yourself, what was the music in your house? And the preacher was on a beeper and - but, you know, it worked out. WAITS: Really young, mariachi music, I guess. ![]() ![]() My dad only played a Mexican radio station.
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