MARC: I was burnt. The business had taken its toll on me. Addiction had run over me.

HATTIE: Addiction had run over you.

MARC: I had been emotionally overrun. I just was at my end. I was set up for a nervous breakdown.

HATTIE: How did you know that? Did you just feel exhausted all the time?

MARC: No, everybody told me.

HATTIE: Your family told you?

MARC: Right. Family and loved ones told me. That's it.

HATTIE: They just said, `You're not going to work anymore'?

MARC: No, `You're out of here.'

HATTIE: They kicked you out of your own place.

MARC: Yes. They kicked me out. I was in rehabilitation for 14 straight months, and it took every minute of it. And I think my life is going to be spent in rehabilitation now. My entire premise in life is to not use drugs and help other people. And that's how I keep myself clean, is by helping other people.

HATTIE: So your family said, `Stop. You're not going to work anymore. You're going to fix this problem.'

MARC: `We've got a bed waiting for you in a treatment center in California.' It's the biggest gift anybody ever gave me. It allowed me this freedom that I have today, that I'm here because I want to be. You know what? I don't have to be, but I sure want to be. How you been?

Unidentified Man #6: Good, buddy. How you been?

MARC: Oh, great.

HATTIE: (Voiceover) The night we were at the bar and club, the Top of the Marc, it was packed with fans of the Austin band, Duck Soup.

HATTIE: Was it like a whole different industry? This is a bar, this is live entertainment. That's different from a deli.

MARC: See, I didn't know that when I did it. I thought, just like the lady with the spaghetti sauce, I know how to bring food to a table, I know how to run a nightclub.I've been in enough nightclubs, I drank enough booze, I've listened to enough music; I'm a nightclub owner. And I wasn't.

I love the environment. I love the nightclub. I love the bar. I love the stage. I love the music. I love being the club owner.