Mark Lanegan Quotes

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

I used to always be the young one playing without pressure, but I am just happy to be where I am and enjoying my time.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

I think I've just matured over the years.