Layne Staley Lives Within

"The guy was one of the nicest, most humble, sincere people that you'll ever meet. I’Il give you an example of how humble he was.

One night we were watching that movie Cocktail. He's watching Tom Cruise — he's spinning all these bottles, and there's all these girls lined up at the bar. Tom Cruise is just a stud in this movie, right? Layne's watching, he looks up — he's got a cigarette in his hand, and of course the ash is about two inches long, that's how he always smoked - and goes, Think of all the women he can get." I'm just like, "Dude, come on!

You're a singer in one of the biggest bands in the world!" He wasn't this arrogant, cocky, have-three- chicks-in-the-hot-tub-topless guy. He was just a pure artist, and didn't really think of all that stuff;

Layne Staley backstage at the Lollapalooza show at Hardee’s Walnut Creek Amphitheater in Raleigh, NC, July 23, 1993