Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. -Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet” My best memory of Layne was when we were making the Above album. He was in the studio lounge reading Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. I had read it a few years earlier so we started talking about what it meant to be an artist and have a spiritual message…suffice it to say Layne Staley felt as though he was on a spiritual mission through his music. Not a rock mission, a spiritual mission. -Barrett Martin [Live at the Moore]