Mark Lanegan Quotes

One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.'

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

I'm just like anybody else: I have stuff to do in the day, whether that's writing a song or recording a song. I try to treat everything I do as just work.

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I've had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.