It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs.
— Scott Weiland
I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.
I'm one of the luckiest people in the world that I was able to do what I fell in love with and be able to make a living doing it.
We're only as big as our experiences.
I like wearing fitted jackets mixed with jeans, a button-down shirt and a tie. I like to keep the rock and roll feel but class it up a bit. As far as stage clothes, I prefer John Varvatos and All Saints. They have clothing that is really accessible for wearing every day as well as for wearing on stage. I also love J. Lindeberg's suits.
I've seen guys on the street who look the part of a rock star just as much as any rock star. If you feel it and you believe it, then you can get away with it. Rock on!
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
One thing that has really influenced me with Bowie where I've taken an approach from him is how he changes from album to album and has always modified his sound and his appearance. I think that's an important thing.
When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.
Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.
People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.
When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.
There was a period when STP and I weren't making music - we weren't getting along very good at all. But I had my studio, so I was writing and recording a lot of music. But something told me not to put it out. It was all stream of consciousness; it was clever, but it didn't really have substance.
I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.
The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.
I feel lucky to be alive.
It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.
I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.
It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.
I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.
When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.
You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.
As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.
I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.
Who you are as a person has to do with what you think and how you feel. It has to do with how you love and how you care for people.
I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.
I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listening to 'Starman' and thinking it sounded like it was a song for kids, like a lullaby. The Thin White Duke is my favorite look that he created.
There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.
I had always sung in choirs. Even when it was something to be laughed at or made fun of, you know, in school. And I was always the kid who was picked at the Christmas concert to sing the solo, you know, while the other kids snickered in the front few rows.
My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.
Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.
I still love making records, and I'm able to do it because I own my own studio, and I try to do it as much as possible.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.
My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.
For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.
Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.
Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.
When bands got really big and sold a lot of records back in the day and did really well on the road, everyone developed a certain ego. And there's a certain entitlement that comes with that. And it stops people from communicating the way you used to communicate when you were in a band together and it was all for one, one for all.
Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.
Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of their biggest hits. But that's something for the lawyers to figure out.
Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'
Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
