Mark Lanegan

I have a high tolerance for pain.

— Mark Lanegan

I'm not much of a partyer.

— Mark Lanegan

Everybody has unhappiness.

— Mark Lanegan

I'm open to life.

— Mark Lanegan

Usually I write on guitar.

— Mark Lanegan

Usually, I write the music and am involved in the production.

— Mark Lanegan

In 1997, I thought I'd never make another record.

— Mark Lanegan

I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.

— Mark Lanegan

I think I've just matured over the years.

— Mark Lanegan

No one would hang out with me if I didn't have music to make.

— Mark Lanegan

I just sort of do what comes natural.

— Mark Lanegan

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

— Mark Lanegan

I'm about creating a body of work and moving on to the next thing.

— Mark Lanegan

I grew up in a small, rural community, where my extended family were mountain-folk type people, and some were very religious.

— Mark Lanegan

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

— Mark Lanegan

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

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

— Mark Lanegan

In 2005, I worked as a scenic painter for a while when I was taking a break from music.

— Mark Lanegan

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

— Mark Lanegan

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

— Mark Lanegan

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

— Mark Lanegan

Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody's help in anything, and the smarter you are - and I'm not smart -…

— Mark Lanegan

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

If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently…

— Mark Lanegan

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

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within…

— Mark Lanegan

When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something…

— Mark Lanegan

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would…

— Mark Lanegan

I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to…

— Mark Lanegan

When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that…

— Mark Lanegan

I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that…

— Mark Lanegan

Working with different people and do things that normally I would not do makes the music interesting for me to continue. It…

— Mark Lanegan

I was in Screaming Trees - I wasn't really interested in playing quiet music in a live setting. But I would get…

— Mark Lanegan

I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when…

— Mark Lanegan

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

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

— Mark Lanegan

I hope I'm learning until I'm dead.

— Mark Lanegan

I was in trouble with the law from when I was real young.

— Mark Lanegan

It isn't important to me how people respond to my work.

— Mark Lanegan

If I have one hero in music, it's John Cale.

— Mark Lanegan