Layne Staley Quotes

• When everyone goes home, you’re stuck with yourself.

  Layne Staley

• 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 Staley

• We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

  Layne Staley

• We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

  Layne Staley

• We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

  Layne Staley

• We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we’ve grown and are learning to accommodate each others’ differences.

  Layne Staley

• There’s no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

  Layne Staley

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.

  Layne Staley

• 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!

  Layne Staley

• People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you’re hurting people and things around you.

  Layne Staley

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• One of the first bands to break out of Seattle was Heart.

  Layne Staley

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• My bad habits aren’t my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

  Layne Staley

• Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

  Layne Staley

• Music is the career I’m lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

  Layne Staley

• Los Angeles, I don’t like that town. Too decadent, and it’s slimy.

  Layne Staley

• 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 Staley

• 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 Staley

Layne Staley (38)

Birth:	22nd August, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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