I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past. — 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 and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier. — 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 Image
When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me. — 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 you're kindred… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me. — 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 really like. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
