Mark Lanegan

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

— Mark Lanegan

Whether I live there again or not, Seattle will always be my home.

— Mark Lanegan

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

— Mark Lanegan

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

— Mark Lanegan

I prefer to stay in the here and now and move forward.

— Mark Lanegan

I grew up a Seattle Sonics fan, in Washington state.

— Mark Lanegan

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.

— Mark Lanegan

I wasn't the easiest guy to work with when I was younger.

— Mark Lanegan

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

One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.

— Mark Lanegan

Hanging out with the Trees is like hanging out with your family, and I hardly ever see my family.

— Mark Lanegan

Even when I'm making my own solo records, I'm collaborating with people. It keeps things interesting for me.

— Mark Lanegan

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

— Mark Lanegan

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

— Mark Lanegan

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

— Mark Lanegan

It took me quite a while to find my natural voice. I'm glad I stuck around long enough to see that happen.

— Mark Lanegan

Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any…

— Mark Lanegan

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

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke…

— Mark Lanegan

My favorite record, growing up, was 'Songs of the Haunted House,' a Disney record that was just wackiness. It's still one of…

— Mark Lanegan

I think there's something therapeutic in singing about anything, whether it's what you've written or whether it's someone else's song. I find…

— Mark Lanegan

You just realize that you don't know everything there is to know. The older I get, the less I know, and that's…

— Mark Lanegan

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of…

— Mark Lanegan

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

Talking about myself is difficult for me. It's anti my true nature.

— Mark Lanegan

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

— Mark Lanegan

It's always fun to play songs by somebody else.

— Mark Lanegan

I enjoy working on whatever I'm working on.

— Mark Lanegan

'Gargoyle' was inching towards a more accessible record.

— Mark Lanegan

Nothing seems too weird to me anymore.

— Mark Lanegan

We've made records for years on a shoestring.

— Mark Lanegan

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

— Mark Lanegan

Most of the music I'm into wasn't popular when it was being made.

— Mark Lanegan

I've always said everything happens the way it's supposed to.

— Mark Lanegan

I think a myth is created from truth.

— Mark Lanegan

I worked as a breakfast cook in a lot of different restaurants.

— Mark Lanegan

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

— Mark Lanegan

I played 'Angry Birds' and tried to see what the hoopla was about.

— Mark Lanegan

Soundgarden are good friends of mine.

— Mark Lanegan

I've learned that sticking around counts for something.

— Mark Lanegan