 Tom Waits improvised his excuse for being late for his rendezvous  with Iggy Pop. In it he explains that he had to perform "roadside  surgery" to deliver a baby in the back of a car. Waits is known for  toying with journalists and is fond of altering his place of birth  (barn, elevator, etc.). In one such interview he claimed to have  been born in the back of a taxi cab.