Scott Stapp Quotes

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.

When you nag, you become the problem, he deals with it by turning you out, but when you don't nag, he deals with the problem.

I'm not on good terms with any of my exes. That's why we're not together anymore. We're not friends.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

I realized I was trying to be friends with somebody who I used to be with but who I didn't get along with. I'm really big on that. I need to be friends with everyone that I've ever had a relationship with.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

She should get a divorce and settle down.

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

If you're going to break up, it reaches a point where whatever is happening is not working and it all comes to a head. I think that's a tough realization and it's hard to communicate sometimes. You just have to think about your happiness and the other person's happiness, and communicate really honestly.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

Time to stop crying, time to get her act together and do something. Time to move beyond the pity party.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.