Mark Lanegan Quotes

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

No family is sane, is it?

A lot of times, you try and please your biological family, and you can't please them.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

My relationship with my mom is really bad.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.

You always fight with your brothers.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.