Mark Lanegan Quotes

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.

Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I love having other people sing my songs.

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

I make music because I like making music.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

There's nothing like that feeling of having just written a song that you know is 'the song,' and you know it's really great, and you can't wait to share it with people; you can't wait to record it.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.