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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I sing like a lark.

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.

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

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 don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

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

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.

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.