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If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Layne Staley

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Layne Staley
Age: 34 †
Born: 1967
Born: August 22
Died: 2002
Died: April 5
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Kirkland
Washington
Layne Thomas Staley
Layne Rutherford Staley
Better
Feel
Feels
Dead

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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.
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There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
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It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
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Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
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I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.
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Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
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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!
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You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.
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I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.
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Los Angeles, I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy.
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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.
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Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
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I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.
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Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
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Drugs will have a huge effect on my work for the rest of my life, whether I'm using or not.
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I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
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What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.
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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.
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