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Layne Staley
August 22, 1967 - April 5, 2002
Nationality: American
Category: Musician
Subcategory: American Musician

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

   

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.

   

I sing like a lark.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

   

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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