Top 50 Scott Weiland Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 can’t read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

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

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that’s already been walked on.

I’m going to take care of myself because that’s what I need to take care of.

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

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.

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

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

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’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.

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.

There’s a beauty in being part of a band, when there’s equality and trust.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I’m miserable.

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

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

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.

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.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It’s made everyone overly opinionated.

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 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.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I’ve chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

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.

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

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.

Bowie’s obviously my biggest influence.

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

I feel lucky to be alive.

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.

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.

I sang in choir as a kid.

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.

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

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

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

We’re only as big as our experiences.

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.

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

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

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