Yay anti-intelectualism! You know what's better then knowledge and understanding? Ignorance and conjecture! I bet that hasn't hurt anyone before
Tom Waits is not a person you should accuse of being an anti-intellectual or of advocating that.
I think the meaning behind this is it’s hard to be creative if there’s always a hard and fast right or wrong answer.
You'll forgive me if I neither know who Tom Waits is, or particularly care, but I can say I've seen enough people turn into corpses from this line of thought before and don't relish the thought of burying any more.