Quotes by Mark Lanegan

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

I just sort of do what comes natural.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

Usually I get asked to do stuff that's cool, and if I ever can't do something, it's usually, because of logistics, I don't have the time for it. Rarely do I get ask to do something that I'd rather not do. I usually do it if I feel that it's something I can do.

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

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.

I enjoy my own songs, but I can never love them in the way that I can love someone else's song.

Naturally, if I'm singing over really loud music, my approach is gonna be different than if I'm singing over some quiet acoustic music.

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.