Mark Lanegan

“All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.”

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

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

“As far as I remember, I don't have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear.”

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

“I hope I'm learning until I'm dead.”

“I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.”

“I have a high tolerance for pain.”

“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 spirits or something.”

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

“It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else's music that I like.”

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

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

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

“When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.”

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

“We've made records for years on a shoestring.”

“I was listening to punk rock in the '70s as a young kid, but all by myself; I never met anyone that listened to that kind of music. Just by chance, I was in detention, and one of the guys in the class was Van Conner... I started talking to him and found out that we listened to some of the same music.”

“When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that store guard was when I got thrown in jail again - this time for not paying court fees. The guy happened to be in jail, too, right next to me. That's what Eastern Washington is like - you never get too far away from anybody.”

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