Just a little piece of the sky

"It's like they found one of those van Gogh's at a garage sale. This woman bought it and she was using it to block out the sun in her kitchen. She was using it as a window shade, so it was getting all faded from the sun. And she cut it because it didn't fit the window. When they finally discovered she had a van Gogh as a window shade, they brought in all these experts from the museum and they were all filling in her living room and they said, "How can you cut off the top of this painting?" And she said, "It was just a little piece of the sky." Sometimes it's the value you attach to things."

Tom Waits interviewed by Beck