In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
When they're listening to your music all the time, you become part of their life, and some people get obsessed. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I was in Screaming Trees - I wasn't really interested in playing quiet music in a live setting. But I would get… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
I think when people hear your music, sometimes they get deeply attached to it and think they know something about you, that you're kindred… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
It's a different kind of satisfaction, different kind of enjoyment than making your own songs, to remake someone else's song that you really like. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's a good… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
I don't think I've ever gotten to the point where I sent out Christmas cards! But if I did, they would have to feature… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that store guard… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
Me and Kurt Cobain were both listening to a bunch of Lead Belly and diggin' it. We thought, 'Let's do an EP of all… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share
