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You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.
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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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There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
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I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
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I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.
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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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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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There's not a word that describes us. We’re not alternative, metal or grunge - we’re not any of that. We’re just what we are.
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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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We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
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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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When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
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Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
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Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
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I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.
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I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.
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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've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
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Times change and you have to adapt.
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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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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
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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.