Layne Staley Quotes

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

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

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

If I Would...Could You?

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

I never planned out my life. Shit just happens. —Layne Staley

MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I don’t know what I would have said. Seeing him so far down the line on this trajectory that he had set for himself made me queasy. It seemed to me like once he discovered heroin, he decided he was going to fully embrace it. Based on the songs on Dirt, he just jumped in. There was no turning back. It was unfortunate and pathetic. That was the myth he made for himself, and he was living it out.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to — and that’s what I would do. I can’t escape.

We Chase misprinted lies, We face the Path of time And Yet I fight, Yet I fight This Battle all alone No One to cry to, No Place to call home My Gift of self is Raped, My Privacy is Raked And Yet I find, Yet I find Repeating in my head If I cant be my own I'd feel better dead

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!