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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.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
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.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
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We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
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.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
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.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
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.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains -
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.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains -
I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains -
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.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains