Layne Staley

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

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

I sing like a lark.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.