Latest Mark Kozelek Quotes from Interviews

• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

  Mark Kozelek

  Block, Writing, Worry

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Like many musicians, it's my roots in music, playing cover songs. I've done probably a lot more covers than the average person who does what I do, but I'm very proud of it, and I do feel like I really bring a lot artistically to these covers.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Musician, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

• "The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

  Mark Kozelek

  Girl, Artist, Different

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

  Mark Kozelek

  Guitar, Boxing, Guy

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

  Mark Kozelek

  Thinking, Years, Important

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

  Mark Kozelek

  Girl, Long, Thank God

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

  Mark Kozelek

  Girlfriend, Sex, Appeals

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• We're all human and life is complicated.

  Mark Kozelek

  Life Is, Complicated, Life Is Complicated

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

  Mark Kozelek

  Lying, Long, Cheated

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

  Mark Kozelek

  Home, House, Balance

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

  Mark Kozelek

  Moving, Perfect, Trying

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

  Mark Kozelek

  Tired, Nylon, Strings

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

  Mark Kozelek

  Years, Two, Records

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

  Mark Kozelek

  Albums, Want, Mark

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Careers, Records

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

  Mark Kozelek

  Giving, Shooting, Firsts

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

  Mark Kozelek

  Song, Pain, Sometimes

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

  Mark Kozelek

  Energy, Interest, Demos

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

  Mark Kozelek

  Rocks, Musician, Levels

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

  Mark Kozelek

  People, Attention, Attention Span

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

  Mark Kozelek

  Artist, Thinking, Helping

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

• I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

  Mark Kozelek

  Believe, Helping Others, Effort

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2014.

• I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

  Mark Kozelek

  Praise, Reactions, Process

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2014.

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