Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Weiland - Page 2

Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.

You can't be seen in your mid-40s wearing leather pants. No leather pants anymore.

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.

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

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 listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

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 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.

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.

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.

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

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

You have to spend a lot more time on the road these days if you want to make a living with music.

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!

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.

In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.

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.

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.

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.

We're only as big as our experiences.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs.

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.

I feel lucky to be alive.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

You are only as big as your experiences.

It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I've changed the way I look at things. 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." I have fallen into that trap before.