Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
Layne Thomas StaleyThe 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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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
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When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.
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To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.
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Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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Layne Thomas StaleyThe 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!
