Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
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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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You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.
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There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
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People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
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I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
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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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When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
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There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
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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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What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.
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We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
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Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
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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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We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
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A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.
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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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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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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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Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
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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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People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.
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Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
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It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.