Plenty of musicians are reluctant to speak openly about their influences, and some even go so far as to claim the music of others has no concrete effect on their creative decisions. Lanegan, on the other hand, proudly admits to looking around for inspiration. “I don’t only take cues, I take whole sections of songs,” he laughs. “I don’t create music in a vacuum, I create it with the whole history of music that I enjoy listening to – to draw on that and whatever happens in real life. The combination of those things is really what inspires me to write songs. So I openly borrow from stuff that I love and probably always will.” -
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