Mark Lanegan Quotes

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.

One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.

I'm not a perfect person - far from it.

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

I have things about me that I dislike; I'm not a perfect human being.

I'm not a perfect person. I never will be. I'm not going to try to be.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

I'm not out here to be showing you I'm this perfect person.

I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token, I'm acknowledging that I'm not always the perfect man; I'm not always doing the right things. That's who I am. I'm working to be better.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I'm a human. Every human is flawed. I might be flawed in different ways than some people, or worse ways than some people, or better ways than some people.

I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.