Alice in Chains Quotes
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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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Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
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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.
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I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.
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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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Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
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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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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 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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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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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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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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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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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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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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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'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.
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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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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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Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
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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.