Quotes from Mark Lanegan

I think I've just matured over the years.

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

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

I like Jamal Crawford. He's from Seattle, went to high school there, lived up there. He's fantastic.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.

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.

I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.

I had a lot of jobs when I was younger. Where I grew up, there was a lot of agricultural jobs, so I worked on a lot of farms. I worked in the pea fields, harvesting peas.

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

The Warriors team with Baron Davis, Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson - that was an incredible team.

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

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

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 put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

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.

There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.

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

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

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

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

If Brian Eno wanted to make a record, I'd definitely clear some time in my calendar. John Cale, too. Those guys consistently make great records, always doing their own thing.

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

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