Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas that I have little to add. I also like to steer clear of writing about people whom I do not personally like.
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It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
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I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.
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Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
