Scott Stapp
Scott Stapp
Scott Stapp is an American singer, songwriter, and musician, known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of hard rock bands Creed and Art of Anarchy. He also has two solo albums: The Great Divideand Proof of Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 August 1973
CityOrlando, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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This is stolen property. Nobody's quite certain of the order of events.
along bad choices hurt stuff
Some stuff has hurt me along the way. And I've been self-destructive at times because of that, and I've made some bad choices because of that,
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Our goal was to create a record that would hold up in both secular and Christian camps,
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I'd have called myself a struggling Christian who was trying to find holes in everything he had been raised to believe. I was a doubting Thomas.
mistake records proud
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
passion order decision
I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
christian euthanasia creeds
I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
moving player one-direction
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
faith fighting hey
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
faith mistake long
I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
forgiveness hurt thinking
I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
people care fans
Sure I hear what people say. But the only opinions I care about are from the fans.
want creeds hated
I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
falling-in-love thinking way
I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.