Devil in a Coma: a memoir

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Speaking of Ireland, has the landscape of the country shaped the work Lanegan has been doing? It’s so different from LA, I say. “It’s extremely physically beautiful here. But I’ve written songs in a lot of different locations over the years. At one point, I wrote an entire record in Motel 6 bathrooms in the middle of the night, sharing a room with the rest of my band. You can’t help but put a part of wherever you’re at, whether mentally or physically, into what you’re working on, and I know I do.”

I loved it. A great band — still is. Josh [Homme] is one of my closest friends, and the other guys were totally cool. On his time with Screaming TreesIt was definitely in my top five worst experiences,” the 57-year-old deadpans down the line from his home in County Kerry. He speaks slowly, with traces of the “scratchy whisper” he describes in Devil in a Coma, his memoir of his harrowing illness. “But I finally turned a corner recently and I’m feeling pretty normal, so it looks like it’s behind me.”

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On losing his hearing for a spell

I was incredibly proud of my wife for making that decision,” says Lanegan. “She’s the most important person I’ve ever had in my life which is why we’ve been together almost two decades.” Every day,” he says. While he was in the coma, doctors wanted to give Lanegan a tracheotomy, but there was a danger it would alter his voice permanently, so Shelley refused permission.