Mark Lanegan Quotes

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

Anything lower than mid-six figures is not going to get me interested in that. And honestly, I just don't want to.

If tears were liquor/ I'd have drunk myself sick,

I think a myth is created from truth.

I've always been a fan of album covers with no writing on them and have used them a lot in my own groups.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing ... well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.