Layne Staley Quotes

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• I wish I could just hug you all, but I’m not gonna.

  Layne Staley

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

  Layne Staley

• I sing like a lark.

  Layne Staley

• I haven’t read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

  Layne Staley

• I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

  Layne Staley

• I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

  Layne Staley

• 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.

  Layne Staley

• I don’t do much else but stay in my hotel room.

  Layne Staley

• Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this – that ain’t my title.

  Layne Staley

• Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I’m using or not.

  Layne Staley

• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

  Layne Staley

• Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.

  Layne Staley

• At home I’m just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

  Layne Staley

• Andrew Wood’s death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  Layne Staley

• A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

  Layne Staley
• 

  I guess i can go anywhere i want. If only i knew where to go.

  Layne Staley

  Tags in Only, Knew

Layne Staley (38)

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

Related Authors

• L. Wolfe Gilbert
• Angel Haze
• Jermaine Dupri
• William Harrison Withers Jr.
• Robert B. Sherman
• Alannah Myles
• Ronald David Wood
• Eric Avery
• Giorgio Moroder
• Charles Mingus

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 23rd November

Births

• 1934 - Robert Towne
• 1911 - Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• 1984 - Lucas Grabeel
• 1949 - Tom Joyner
• 1987 - Nicole Polizzi

Deaths

• 1990 - Roald Dahl
• 1992 - Roy Acuff
• 1995 - Louis Malle
• 1979 - Merle Oberon
• 1991 - Klaus Kinski