133 Quotes by Scott Weiland

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.

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.

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

I want a performance style that’s more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

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

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.

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.

I could hide in the calm of the eye of the storm and never blow away.

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