Waits made a rare surprise public appearance at the SFFilm Awards earlier this week prompting gasps and wild applause, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Cage, 59, first worked with Waits, 74, when he was 19 years old, when the pair co-starred in the 1983 film Rumble Fish. "He was the same as a teenager," the Anywhere I Lay My Head singer said of Cage while presenting him with the Maria Manetti Shrem Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting. "It was troublesome for his family and other people around him."