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" 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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" 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. "

Scott Weiland

Love

Try

Still

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

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

" I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them. "

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

Scott Weiland

Want

Creative

" I want my ex-wife and children to be happy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Scott Weiland

People

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

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

" 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

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

Scott Weiland

Creative

Influence

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

" 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. "

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

" I feel lucky to be alive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Scott Weiland

Songwriting

Music

" As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. "

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

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