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Here's some quotes from the interview transcript that relate to some of the discussions we have had on here... ie. playing Creed songs in concert, Scott's feelings on a Creed reunion, the sex tape...etc.

I didn't want to post the whole transcript because it is pretty long.
You can find it here:
http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/node/109

Quote:

Do you still get on with the other members of Creed. Are the communication lines still open?

Oh, no. No. Creed will never get back together.

Oh, man. You’ll have a lot of disappointed fans.

Well, you know, man, I think that Creed was an idea. One thing that we say, me and my band now, is ‘this is bigger than us’. That’s because the music is like a journal of our growth in life, and our ups and downs, and ways of how we want to be but aren’t, but we may sing about because we’re trying to build ourselves up, not anybody else. There’s no agenda. The music, for me, lyrics especially, I write for me. And I think that was such a misunderstanding in Creed. But it’s not gonna change. Just the players. There’ll be changes in the music per se, but I really consider this just Creed album number four, nothing really changed except the guys I had play around me, and I went from one genius guitar player to another.

I want to ask you about Creed. You guys just had a gargantuan amount of success. The music industry is a difficult mountain to climb. When the band split up, and now you’ve gone solo, did you ever doubt that you could climb that mountain a second time?

Oh, you know. I never thought about it. Here I am doing it, man. At the time, man. You’re just in the moment. I was in the moment, but not in the moment because of things going on in my personal life. And it was a rough time for me as well as for everybody else in the band. There was a lot of stuff going on. You know, I thought it was gonna last forever. The thing is, is I think it can, and I think it is. And I don’t wanna take away from the guys that played with me in Creed, but you know it’s carried on, man. It’s right there on The Great Divide. And of course it’s got its differences, but the essence of the band I started, Creed, and the sound that I helped create and wrote with is there, man. The only thing that I really focussed on differently lyrically is... I’m tired of being misunderstood. And so I wanted to get it out there that ‘Hey, you know’ – and I think I mentioned this before – I write about how I wanna be sometimes not how I am.

Scott, we’ve only got about 30 seconds left, and you can feel free to say ‘Simon, that’s absolutely none of your business–’

Oh hey, are you talking about the sex tape?

Yeah. Well, you know...

I can’t really talk a lot about that because of the litigation and lawsuit, but let me tell you, man. Somebody... I can’t believe that on my wife’s first marriage, a beautiful wedding... What hurts me the most about that is my wife had to deal with that. It stole a good three-four days of joy from my honeymoon. And that’s not cool, man. Fortunately, me and my wife were honest with each other, and we’d known each other and shared things with each other that prior, way prior to that tape, six, seven, eight months prior, I had told her after my first divorce that I went reeling a little bit. And I kinda wanted to experience the rock n roll lifestyle. I thought it was what I was supposed to do. I thought, hey man, this is what my idols did, right? And this is how I was thinking. I was young, you know, 24, 25. And, you know, I did what I did. I’m not ashamed that the whole world knows. If they would ask me, I’d tell ‘em. But what I’m ashamed of is... I’m ashamed of that behaviour now.

Are you and Kid Rock still on speaking terms?

Oh, Bob, was just getting publicity. You know, his album was coming out.

But that’s what some people are saying about you? You must be pretty disappointed about that? That people are saying the same thing about you?

Ah, whaddya mean? About the tape?

Yeah.

Nah, the tape was stolen, man. Do you think that I’d put that out about myself? My god, man. And also, Bob. Listen, behind the scenes, Bob wasn’t happy that tape was out. Are you kidding me? He went off on me, even publicly. But behind the scenes, he still was like ‘how could you be so stupid to let someone steal that from you?’


Yeah, it’s a good record. I liked it more than I thought I would, to be perfectly honest. I just have one question for you. I think your fans would like to know: will you be playing any Creed songs when you’re touring?

Oh yeah, dude. I mean, they’re my songs. I do my whole new record and I do 10 Creed songs. We mix it up. But I pretty much make sure I do all my hits. But then there are songs that people like live that I found out over the years, like Faceless Man and Wash Away the Years sometimes, and Lullaby, and Bullet, and Freedom Fighter, and even going back to Unforgiven Illusion, and things of that nature. I play everything I write, man. It’s just a matter of the mood that I’m in. It’s hard to jump back into some of those moods, because those were times and diaries and depictions of my mind and my life at the time. So some of the songs I sing, and I think ‘My God, I can’t believe that I wrote this song’...

It’s like a time capsule.

Yeah, exactly. So we just try to keep it fresh. The typical Creed fan comes to the show an they gonna get everything that they love and more.

Would you be OK with the other guys now playing in Alter Bridge playing Creed songs.

I don’t think they could pull it off. You think someone could pull off me?

No. No, probably not.

I don’t think anyone could pull off Mark Tremonti. That’s why everything is done exactly like Mark Tremonti played it. But I don’t think somebody could take away my heart and make a cover song out of it. I don’t think someone could do me. I’m sorry. Could somebody do Bono? Springsteen? I mean, I couldn’t do Axl Rose–

God forbid, man.

I mean, I’m just saying. I’m not saying I’m in those guys’ league. I’m just saying that I think I have my own sound, and unfortunately as a guitar player there’s thousands and millions of them. But lead singers with a distinctive style and a way of writing lyrics that’s just not replaceable and that was something that was learned by Alter Bridge. You can’t just plug in somebody new and expect the same thing to happen. And for me it’s more about just name awareness. You know, people know me as the Creed guy. They see me and go ‘Scott Creed!’ I get recognised everywhere, but Scott Stapp people don’t know. But they’re gonna know this go-around.

Does that piss you off, at all?

Not at all, man. I did everything I ever said I was gonna do. I never said I would announce the breakup. I committed myself to spend 10 years of my life to be with them. I swore I’d never say anything negative about them in the press. I signed agreements. I spent Christmases, and all that. These are my friends. So that’s why the way their situation and the way they handled it shocked me to death first of all. But it was also like, my god, I was almost a dead man. It was almost Creed turned to greed. And you know, I had a role to play in that, because I’m a grown man. I can make decisions. I can tell a doctor ‘Hey, I’m listening to this doctor. I come from an athletic background, so my mentality, being a leader, I played quarterback, I played shortstop, I was always in a leadership role in the athletic teams I played on, and I approached that way in my music. And I was like ‘Shoot me up, and I’ll do it’. And I did and took whatever I needed to, to try and keep this band together. But really it was killing me.

You’re moving in a world that’s pretty superficial sometimes. You know, the music industry. It’s a fact, isn’t it? A lot of it’s about image. Sometimes if you’re not careful you get sucked into that way of living. That way of being.

Yeah, I guess. I just didn’t no what to do. [tape flip] It’s all about who you have in your life, man. And what people’s priorities are, and right now my priority is to enjoy what I do in all aspects. That’s why I’m doing interviews at 10 o’clock at night at home during my break. Because I’m finally getting to have a conversation to a journalist, instead of feeling like I’m taking a deposition. And just talking about the reality of the situation. And the thing is, I chose this life. I chose to be in the public eye. So I can’t expect everybody to act like I think I would expect myself to be. There’s things that I’ve expected myself to be that I have not lived up to. Obviously. It’s good to be the king, isn’t it?

Well, yeah, absolutely, but...

Did you hear what I said there? I said it was ‘good to be the king’. I was kinda picking on myself there. [That’s what Scott says in the sex tape, while, er, being serviced by one of the ladeez...] But you know, that’s where your head can get.