Scott Stapp Quotes


"I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?"
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Music, Business, Press, Want)

"I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Love, God, Climate, Hell, Right)

"I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: God)

"I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Christian)

"I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Son, Hope, Positive, Memory, Want)

"I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Life, God, Christ, Rebellion, Trying)

"Creed's sound is my sound."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Sound)

"Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: People, Decision, Poor)

"I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Faith, Time, Christ, Mistakes, Now, Problems, Right)

"I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: God, Decisions, Direction, Order, Passion)

"And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: God, Home, Heart, Man, Now, Right, Running)

"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Dad, Heart)

"My problems were not what ended Creed."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Problems)

"It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Faith, Fighting, Nothing)

"No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Day, Mistakes, Office, Will)

"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Life, Music, Christian, Community, Right, Struggle, Want)

"There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Collaboration, Direction, Guitar, Reason)

"When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: People, Open, Opera, Want)

"You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Love, Admiration, Mistakes)

"Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Life, Change, God, People, Purpose, Christian, Artists, Now, Will)