Mark Lanegan Quotes

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don't feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don't really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don't care.

I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

People can label me whatever they like. I don't really care any more.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

Why do people need awards? Don't you know your value and your worth? I don't need anybody's award or acceptance.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

What other people think about me is not my business.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's opinions are just that - opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that's only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.