Layne Staley Quotes

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

Nice, Real, Friendly

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

Different, Else, Anyone

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

Life, Light, Suffering

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
Layne Staley

Home, Yourself, Everyone

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

Life, Home, Perfect

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

Knew, Guess, Anywhere

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

Tired, Made, Two

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

Death, Person, Him

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
Layne Staley

Bad, Talent, Habits

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

Music, Writing, Drawing

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

Thinking, Down, Whatever

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

Life, Person, Find

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
Layne Staley

Deep, Around, Hurting

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Layne Staley

True, Nothing, Read

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
Layne Staley

Wish, Hug, Gonna

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

Life, Work, Whether

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

Life, Whatever, Meaning

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

Metal, York, Speed

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

Death, After, Few

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

Music, Today, Friends

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.
Layne Staley

Using, Lasting, Paying

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

Deep, Human, Few

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

Free, Used, Seek

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

Music, Career, Enough

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

Night, Thought, After

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 22, 1967

Died: April 5, 2002

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