Mark Kozelek Quotes

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

We're all human and life is complicated.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.