Mark Sayles isn't around much, any more

"Well, I'm very proud of him."
- Sayles' father, after his son's disastrous first concert

"Even after that album of his took off, he didn't start living like he was this big-shot. I mean it, he was such a good boy."
- Sayles' stepmother

"Man, I wanted the money. But when I got it, I felt I just had to put all of it back into making something new, something even bigger and more ridiculously insane. And, uh, some drugs."
- Mark Sayles

"Now, I regret not being there for him. Maybe there was something I could have done to prevent his life from, er, coming to all that. But I was young then, and just as foolish as he became."
- Sayles' mother

"If you give a piece of any kind of art a ridiculous title, the general public will give you license to do just about anything. It's great."
- Mark Sayles