Alice in Chains Quotes
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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
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Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
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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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That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
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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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Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
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To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.
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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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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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If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead
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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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You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.
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In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.
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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
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I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.
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I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
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I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
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The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
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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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We got famous off singing about a chicken.