Layne Staley Quotes
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Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.
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What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.
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You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.
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Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
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Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
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If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead
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We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
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I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.
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My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
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We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
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I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.
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We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.
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I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job.
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When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
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I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
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One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.
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My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
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Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
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Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
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I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
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There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on.
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We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
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I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
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Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
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I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.
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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
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Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
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The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!
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