“When Layne does it… you get chills. He sings from the other side. Some kind of icy, cold, horrible rage comes from that guy, and that’s why we bought the records. ‘Cause he’s—such great songs, such amazing lyrics, such interesting vocals.”— Henry Rollins about Layne Staley
“That darkness was always part of the band, but it wasn’t all about that. There was always an optimism, even in the darkest shit we wrote. With Dirt, it’s not like we were saying ‘Oh yeah, this is a good thing.’ It was more of a warning than anything else, rather than 'Hey, come and check this out, it’s great!’ We were talking about what was going on at the time, but within that there was always a survivor element – a kind of triumph over the darker elements of being a human being. I still think we have all of that intact, but maybe the percentage has shifted.”
Me: do want to hear loads of useless information about bands I obsess over and famous people I have never met to distract myself from the shit hole that is my life?
