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Birth Name: Scott Richard Kline
Date and place of birth: October 27, 1967; San Jose (Kaiser Hospital), CA. U.S.A.
Family: mother Sharon Williams, father Kent Kline (divorced 1969). adopted age 5 by stepdad David Weiland. Stepbrothers Michael Weiland (mom's side) and Seth and Matthew Kline (dad's side).
Marital Status: Divorced once (Janina Castaneda, September 17 1994-2000) Married, almost divorced and reconciled with Mary Forsberg, May 20 2000-present.
Children: Noah Mercer (born November 19, 2000); Lucy Olivia (born July 20, 2002).

Instruments: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Drums, Beatbox, Xylophone.
Previous bands: Soi Disant, Awkward Positions, Swing, Mighty Joe Young, Magnificent Bastards, Stone Temple Pilots

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Quotes
"It's a marriage with those guys, and I've rekindled the fire."
(Scott referring to his reunion with STP)
"I have no desire to be the next Brad Pitt, but I'm not bad-looking either."
(Scott on his possible upcoming movie role)
"We [STP] may not be the best rock 'n' roll band in the world, just the only one."
(Scott at the Viper Room)
"Experiencing love. It's the greatest thing anyone can achieve."
"Grunge is dead and I shed no tears at the funeral. Dirty jeans, pavement T-shirts, and dreadlocks are boring. Rock stars used to be alluring! We're like magicians, ya know? We get to project love and positive energy. We get to create magic! The thing is, I don't really give a sh*t what's cool and what's not cool, because I've never been regarded as cool. However, it is cool right now. Could you hand me my sweater?"
"I don't think anyone who is in the situation where they are a rock star would be there if they didn't dream of it as a kid, listening to Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Kiss records. There were things that really bothered me about it for a while because a lot of it is set up as a lie -- it's not really as it seems, the picture that's painted. Like the whole myth of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- it isn't this beautiful picture.
"Drugs, sex with our wives, and masturbation techniques are things we really don't talk about in interviews."
"She and I talk to each other fairly frequently. She'll write a new song and she'll call me up and play it over the phone. She asked me to cowrite and coproduce a tune with her in the studio about a month ago but I was pretty, uh, hung up at the time. I couldn't really get away. But we've gotten to be friends over the past year. She's a very smart person and she definitely knows what she wants, careerwise. She's a friend, and she's not the evil bitch that people make her out to be."
"When it starts out, you go to these great places at night. And you become part of your own secret group. But after awhile it stops being like that because you're like, 'I gave this up for my real life and for my soul.' And it becomes something you need just to stay well. If you don't have it, you're sick, and you long for the life you had before. You stop going out... stop wearing flashy clothes... and you stop caring."
"I'm trying to learn more about spirituality, searching inward and using other people as a teacher who have more experience than I do. And when I say I'm a humanist, a feminist, believe in love and not hatred, I can say, 80 to 90 percent of the time, that I'm walking the walk and not just talking the talk."
"I like rock stars. I'm a rock star. I'm glad rock stars and supermodels are becoming popular again. They are the only superheroes we have because life is painful, life sucks, and you want things that seem fun, exciting."
"I'd suck dick for fashion and there was a time when I'd suck dick for a crack hit, but I never had to. I'm rich."
"People do throw syringes onstage at times. As if I'd actually shoot one, it's probably full of rat poison. Besides, I seem to get in more trouble when I'm at home bored and doing nothing."
On "Barbarella," he sings "I'll stay at home 'cause I'm the mouse." He explains; "I didn't want to show my face anywhere. Like, heroin was my only friend."
He cranks "Where's the Man," a song he wrote about kicking heroin cold turkey. Scott breaks it down: "'As I get behind the wheel again means I'm taking control. 'You know I lied but/ If it makes you glad/ I'll tell you what you wanna hear' is when I first realized what a liar and thief I was becoming."
The abrasive, highly sexed, "Cool Kiss" is about a stripper Scott hung out with after he and his wife seperated. It wasn't really an affair; they were both so loaded they couldn't have sex. "I think she's dead now," Scott informs me.
It is the yearning "Son" which stands out. I said, "What is that? That's beautiful." Weiland said, "Well, while I was in rehab I was thinking about how I've wasted the last three years of my life not watching my son grow up and how I would love to be a part of his life again. It just made me cry, and I wrote the words thinking 'What is it like to be a father?' I've gone through three different abortions with girlfriends, and it really took a lot out of me. So I sang this to the child I never had."
"I'm a fashion whore."
"I guess it's a paradox, wanting to live this, like, fabulous life and also wanting to have a normal life. Can you have both? It's possible, but whether you're an auto mechanic or a rock star, the world's still going to be a frustrating place."
"Rock stars look good skinny, and they don't look good fat. To me, rock 'n' roll is not leopard prints. It could be a white linen suit, a black shirt with a white tie- the way the Beattles dressed in 'Let It Be.' You know- get out of your Rolls-Royce wearing a big fur coat, a suit, a tie, nice loafers..."
"I was a pretty apathetic and lonely kid. I guess I never felt that I was liked very much. When I was younger, the only friend I really had was an imaginary friend named Poogus. I used to blame things on him. When I got a little older I didn't feel like I was what I should be. I wasn't popular, really, and I tried for a while to be. I really was mad at myself, and angry -- I couldn't figure out why I wasn't and why I didn't identify with other people. I always had, like, only one real friend at a time."
"Sex. See, sex is the most important thing in the whole world. And not just for humans, either -- for animals too. I mean people seem to think that humans are the only ones who approach sex for pleasure -- that's what organized religion tries to teach us. But you know what? When I was a kid, my dog use to f*ck my leg all the time. And obviously, he knows he's not gonna get a puppy from doing that. So theres gotta be some kind of sexual pleasure that dogs get from f*cking your leg. Sex is the most important thing in the world. It's the most important thing to me when I get off tour. It's better than going to Disneyland."
"I don't like being thrust into this position of being a role model. With 'Sex Type Thing' I tried to speak out on something that I felt was important, and suddenly half the people were painting me as a poster boy for the neo-feminist movement, and the other half thought I was glorifying rape and violence against women. I then felt this responsibility to do these benefits for various organizations, and it was great that we did that. But I don't want to be defined by a political platform."
"I'm trying to figure out some way to express my sexual preferences that will shock the whole rock world. I'm waiting to find out if it has anything to do with animals."
"I don't regret drugs at all... the hell I went through made it possible for me to enjoy life the way I enjoy it now."
"You believe in what you believe in. I'm really not asking anyone to believe anything. If you like the band, then believe in the music. That's the main thing. I'm not quitting alcohol or drugs for the fan's sake. I'm doing it because it's the only option there is left for me to live a good life."
Yeah, I tried it out during those high school years and... you know I'm having deja vu right now, but what I remember of it is uh, going and having a great expectation of having sex and it never happening, because I didn't have the muscles or the Ninja bike you know. So I couldn't get the girl with the floss bikini.
"There are some great rock stars that are anti-rock stars, you know. At least... c'mon, if you're not even that good, at least be entertaining, you know. The guy from Oasis (Liam Gallagher), sure he really can't perform worth a sh*t. That's probably really why he stands still, because he doesn't know how to move, you know. Like one foot in front of the other doesn't compute. He's hardly any Mick Jagger, but at least he goes out on a limb and does something really punk like spits on the stage during live TV. That's why it kind of pisses me off when this guy Liam brags about how many lines of cocaine he snorted. It's like, c'mon man, go get a real habit."
"What made STP such a beautiful thing is that we are four distinctly different people, each with his own individual little problems. You got your sex addicts, a couple of drug addicts and a guy who's an obsessive compulsive recluse--like a brilliant Brian Wilson type. So you have this combustible combination. At any moment, the whole thing might explode. It makes life difficult for crews who are working for us on tour, 'cause they don't know if they're gonna be on a bus or plane going home the next day and the whole tour called off. But what it does do is make really provocative and energetic rock'n'roll."
"For a while there, I felt uncomfortable being myself. I would go through brief moments of being myself, like wearing a pink ostrich feather jacket, green pants and a patterned, satin shirt in the video for 'Interstate Love Song.' But then I would go through a period of insecurity because of the whole grunge, anti-fashion, anti-star thing. I would intentionally tone down what I wore. And I didn't feel happy about it."
"I hate when people deny their influences. Like goddamned Oasis. They're arrogant enough to say they're better than the Beatles. Yet they claim they're not influenced by the Beatles. I find that appalling."
"If I'm aspiring to have any career, it's to have one like David Bowie. When I'm in my 50s, I'd love to look half as good as he does, still have a 29-inch waist, a wife that looks as wonderful as Iman and be able to drive around in a Rolls-Royce and still be considered somewhat punk rock."

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IS AMERICA REALLY HEALTHY? IS GEORGE BUSH A FASCIST? What are you going to do about it?
By Scott Weiland

Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union there has been a lack of a balance of power. This lacking has created an environment whereas any American president - or “two” presidents with the same name - could impose their will globally and unilaterally, for a number of reasons: anti-terror (defense spending), democracy (oil). Democracy, democracy, oil, oil, oil – “All we need is oil / da, da, da, da, da”.

The initial argument for war in Iraq was to rid the region of weapons of mass destruction and remove Saddam from power, making the region and the world safe from a maniacal dictator. Somehow the motive has blurred into something completely different altogether: “A free and democratic society for the people of Iraq”, most of whom don’t want what we’re selling them, and never will.

And then there’s the Patriot Act whose name couldn’t be more misleading or closer to the antithesis, and would never have been passed had it not been for the fall-out factor of 9/11, and the fact that the Bush administration was playing off every American’s fears of one another. They didn’t take away our civil liberties, we allowed them to be taken away! But what are we going to do about it now!!

What does this election all mean to us? To you? To me? I believe this goes back to the foundation of ideals that this country was founded on - those God-given inalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And brothers and sisters: with civil liberties under attack and censorship abound, I implore you to make a choice for freedom. A freedom for youth. Freedom of youth is the freedom of the future.

Twelve years ago, as an artist I felt a freedom to express my ideals, thoughts, and hopes, even those that were not consistent with what was considered politically correct or deemed in line with current patriotic values. But all that has changed. Censorship has reared its ugly head. Not since the days of “McCarthyism” in the 50’s has their been an actual public fear of persecution that was based in reality. Since I started this last album - the creative process, press, video, lyrics, album art, website art – I have been up against an unseen enemy that has been put in place by this current “fascist-like” regime: censorship, and the persecution that comes with it.

Ever since our media blitz in Hollywood (we did a free show in front of 3,000 kids), I have been speaking out candidly about these issues. Now, in the middle of an American tour, the frequency of which I’m selected for “Special Security Screening” at airports has jumped from about 30% to 80-90%. Once again I say to you; it’s not whether we’re moving in the direction of a fascist state, it’s whether or not you want it that way. Do you?

I remember the weeks following 9/11. The tragedy, the sadness, and that overwhelming feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop… then something else happened. America came together and rose out of the ashes like a Phoenix for the first time in my life. The ideals, hopes, and common bonds that once were the bedrock of this nation rose again to the surface and we let the world see what we were made of - our unity, brotherly love, and honor, even if brought together by tragedy.

I feel that George Bush took advantage of us. Took advantage of our loss. Took advantage of our pain. Took advantage of our grief, and used it for his own selfish designs. The question is not whether or not this happened, but if we’re going to do something to change it. Please make a vote that shows America does not belong to George Bush. That the White House is not an heirloom of the Bush Dynasty. Place a vote to restore honor and pride back to America and the presidency. Vote for John Kerry.

If you’re asking, “why did you post this now? The day of?” It’s because I want it to be the last thing on your mind before you hit that booth!

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