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" I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb. "
Scott Weiland
Young
My Life
Where
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" It's incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride. "
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" I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it. "
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" 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. "
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" Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides. "
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" 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. "
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" To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me. "
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" 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. "
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School
Friend
" 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. "
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Know
" There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust. "
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" We're only as big as our experiences. "
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Only
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" I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids. "
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Two
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Punk
" The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. "
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Write
Songs
" Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted. "
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Life
" 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. "
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" It's like, hey, some people cook for a living, and some people milk cows. I write songs. "
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" The Beatles have always had a big effect on me. "
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" 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. "
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Love
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility. "
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" Bowie's obviously my biggest influence. "
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