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.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.