Scott Weiland
Scott Weiland
Scott Richard Weilandwas an American musician, singer and songwriter. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland was best known as the lead singer of the band Stone Temple Pilots from 1989 to 2013, as well as the supergroup Velvet Revolver from 2003 to 2008. He also established himself as a solo artist, releasing two studio albums, two cover albums, a live album and collaborations with several other musicians since 1995...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth27 October 1967
CitySanta Cruz, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.
When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.
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.
I think to stay in one sound is a career killer.
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 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.
When I was around nine years old, I was a fan of Shaun Cassidy's first album.
I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
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.
I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous.
I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.
In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
I listened to a lot of Bob Dylan songs to see how he works. I've gotten into writing story-songs.
I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.