Mark Lanegan Quotes

I just really enjoy doing it and I've always loved making music.

We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I have a passion for music, and I enjoy the process of expressing myself within the parameters of a pop song, and I don't do it to seek anybody's approval, necessarily. Obviously, you go on stage, and you enjoy it when people respond to a particular song, but the overall concept of playing music I do for myself.

The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

I love my own music.

I make music because I like making music.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I just want to make music people like.

I don't listen to my music if I'm not making it.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

I'm happy. I feel good about music.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

I think that when I am making music, if I can be really happy with it and get my message across, then that is the most important thing.

I love songs, so when you're song-based, it doesn't matter which way the production leans.

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.

When I'm listening to music for pleasure, I'm gonna listen to someone else's music.

This creating? It's my passion.