Scott Weiland: This is an interesting anecdote. Courtney Love was at our show the other night, and she was talking to my fiancée and asking her if I've really been clean for nine months. And I remember thinking that from the time I was a teenager and I joined my first band, the quest of the evening, going on stage, was to really lose yourself and be out of body. I found that in being clean, I can have a much greater intoxicating, out-of-body experience just through the energy of the music and being on stage. It's more liberating and intoxicating than any chemical that I've ever put in my body. [RealVideo]
MTV: Will there be a full tour?
Dean DeLeo: We're going to wrap up this radio tour after a couple of weeks, and then we have some time to chill at home with family and stuff, and then we're jumping right back out. We're doing a lot of the radio shows around the country.
SW: Big stadium festivals.
DD: We've only gigged a stadium once. We played with the Rolling Stones up in Canada, and it was an interesting event. And we'll also do our own STP shows and bring out some bands that we adore. We're going to go out and do some shows with the Chili Peppers.
SW: We're pretty much on the road from this point on all the way through the end of August.
MTV: Is this an attempt to re-launch this album and officially start promoting it?
Robert DeLeo: Absolutely. Last time we saw you, we were trying to do as much as we could without our quarterback. So I think it's only... it's only right that we re-launch the record, so to speak, to do it justice.
SW: Yeah. Right now we're just doing all the stuff that we would have done if I wasn't hauled away by a 250-pound bailiff.
DD: This is a body of work. It's a part of us, man, and we want to give it its fair shake. We want people to hear it. We love our record and we're looking forward to performing these songs.
MTV: You guys have four albums out. You could put out a greatest-hits album.
SW: It's easier to look back at now, since we have a few years under our belt, but during the period of the first two records, it was really difficult to get a grip on what was happening, because it was like we were in a tornado. It was all happening so fast, and it was just one hit song after another, and as much as it jacked up our egos, it was kind of unsettling. It took us a while to land and to adjust to what was going on. Now I think that we're in a much better place as individuals and as a band to really sort of enjoy the journey that we're on. We're really grateful that we have the opportunity to travel the world and play music and hang out with our best friends and take our wives with us and enjoy different cultures and different cities around the world. Can you imagine, when we have children, how amazing it would be for our kids to be able to brought up world-savvy and cultured and knowing more about the world and its people besides just what happens in Southern California? [RealVideo]
MTV: There wasn't any band performance in the video for "Sour Girl." Is that something that you guys purposely wanted to do?
DD: The song really lent itself to that type of thing.
SW: You can't really bang your head to "Sour Girl." What makes us the band that we are is the ability to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. I think it's still very provocative and has a sort of eerie, almost disturbing element to it, and it's definitely interesting. The director we worked with on this is a real artist an interesting little chap, and I think it's a really cool video.
