[351] "There ain't no Devil, there's just God when he's drunk." "I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink." "Everybody I like is either dead or not feeling very well." "I'm so broke I can't even pay attention." "You have to keep busy, after all, no dog ever pissed on a moving car." "I don't care who I have to step on on my way down." [352] Another friend from that time, Troubadour-manager Robert Marchese, related that Waits cultivated "the whole mystique of this really funky dude and all that Charles Bukowski crap" to give "his impression of how funky poor folk really are," whereas in reality Waits was "basically a middle-class, San Diego mom-and-pop-schoolteacher kid." [350] Humphries thought that there was a "conservative element" to Waits' persona, stating that behind his public image, "Waits has always been more of a white-picket-fence kind of guy than you might imagine." [353] Jarmusch described Waits as "a very contradictory character," stating that he is "potentially violent if he thinks someone is screwing with him, but he's gentle and kind too." [354] Herbert Hardesty, who worked with Waits on Blue Valentine , called him "a very pleasant human being, a very nice person." [355] Humphries referred to him as "an essentially reticent man
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