Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Scott Weiland
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.
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.
My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.
The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.
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.
Sing the song or keep it inside.
Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.
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 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.
I feel lucky to be alive.
You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.
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 sang in choir as a kid.
If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.
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.
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.
When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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.
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.
To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.
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.
As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.
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.
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.
Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.
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.
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.
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.
As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.
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.
You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.
There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.
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.
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.'
For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.
I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.
It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
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.
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.
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.
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
