Alice in Chains Quotes
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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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Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
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I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.
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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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If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead
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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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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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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
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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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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
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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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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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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
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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 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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Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.
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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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It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.