Words matter. These are the best Layne Staley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you’re hurting people and things around you.
I sing like a lark.
I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
My bed isn’t made, I’m tired, I haven’t slept well for two weeks. I haven’t been laid in a month. I don’t have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.
I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Los Angeles, I don’t like that town. Too decadent, and it’s slimy.
There’s no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
I don’t do much else but stay in my hotel room.
The 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!
We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.
I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn’t afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.
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.
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.
My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
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.
I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
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.
I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.
There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin’ anything we could get our hands on.
I wish I could just hug you all, but I’m not gonna.
I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I’m using or not.
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.
Music is the career I’m lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.