133 Quotes by Scott Weiland

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

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.

The Beatles have always had a big effect on me.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.