Scott Weiland Wants You to Root for HimMarch 6 2013
The volatile frontman shares his secrets for a life in rock
Tired and a bit frigid, but definitely not broken, the 45-year-old rock survivor shared some advice.
People would come up to me and say, "Scott, people really root for you." I haven't heard that in a long time, and I don't know why.
It was a very special thing that people would say, and I would hear it all the time. But the interesting thing is that it's been almost 11 years since I used drugs, and I don't really hear it [anymore] except from my friends. There's another side of it that I take personally. For example, we had to cross into Canada last night to make it to the show in Niagara Falls, and we went to the border crossing. There was this really cool [customs official], and he took our passports and he asked us if we had anything to declare. We told him we had a little bit of food, a little bit of beverages, and on days off, some of the guys in the band would play some paintball. So we thought everything was cool. He says, "Just pull over on the side for the routine inspection." So we pull over to the side, and as luck would have it, this Mr. Mountie Friendly read us the inquisition about past transgressions decades long-gone. That's a life I barely recognize anymore, and the point is, I've been on tour throughout Canada over the last couple decades many, many times. I've never been treated that way before. It was kind of shocking, and it was actually kind of humiliating.
http://www.spin.com/articles/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-interview-words-of-wisdom
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