When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, …

- Mark Kozelek

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the a…

- Mark Kozelek

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

- Mark Kozelek

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

- Mark Kozelek

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

- Mark Kozelek

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and…

- Mark Kozelek

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

- Mark Kozelek

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

- Mark Kozelek

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

- Mark Kozelek