Quotes from Scott Weiland

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.

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.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

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.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

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.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

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.

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

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.

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.

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.