Greg Prato

MARK ARM : Even if I did talk to [Layne Staley], I don__ know what I would have said. Seeing him so far down the line on this trajectory that he had set for himself made me queasy. It seemed to me like once he discovered heroin, he decided he was going to fully embrace it. Based on the songs on Dirt, he just jumped in. There was no turning back. It was unfortunate and pathetic. That was the myth he made for himself, and he was living it out.

YANNI __OHNNY_ BACOLAS: I would always tell him, __ayne [Staley], why don__ you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to._ And his rebuttal was, __ohnny, I have celebrity status and I have a lot of money. I could fly planes out to deliver me the dope if I wanted to _ and that__ what I would do. I can__ escape.

NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don__ think the same _ their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.