You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a…

- Mark Lanegan

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

- Mark Lanegan

I think a myth is created from truth.

- Mark Lanegan

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

- 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 and I just never felt that way ab…

- Mark Lanegan

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

- Mark Lanegan

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

- Mark Lanegan

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.

- 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 put a name …

- Mark Lanegan