Scott Weiland Quotes

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.

What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That's really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.

I completely follow my gut and do what I like doing. I have become impulsive in a good way. I am taking creative risks as an actor.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I've known who I am as an artist for a long time; 'Idol' has shown me what I'm capable of. I know it's all possible for me now. I can go in any direction I want. I'm forever grateful to them.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.