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" 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! "

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" 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. "

Scott Weiland

Feel

Character

Dark

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

" If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies. "

" My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music. "

" 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. "

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

Scott Weiland

Creative

Influence

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

" We're only as big as our experiences. "

" 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. "

" Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you. "

" Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam. "

" 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. "

" When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. "

Scott Weiland

Music

Water

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

Scott Weiland

Writing

Songs

" I think to stay in one sound is a career killer. "

" It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sing the song or keep it inside. "

" 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. "

Scott Weiland

Die

Love

" Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human. "

Scott Weiland

Show

Human

" I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Scott Weiland

People

" The Beatles have always had a big effect on me. "

" When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. "