Scott Stapp - Personal Life

Personal Life

Stapp has committed himself to sobriety. He shaved his head, which he used to demonstrate his "changed" personality. He said,"I wanted my wife to perceptually and visually see me as changing, that I was not what I used to be." Stapp's Creed band mate, guitarist Mark Tremonti, said that he was "surprised as hell at Scott's new attitude towards music and life in general." Tremonti elaborated, saying: "It seems as though, over the last six years, he'd done a lot of maturing and reflecting; he has his head on straight. And he realizes how truly important Creed was to him. Not just as a monetary enterprise, but as a band, a group of people. Creed was an important thing for him to be a part of. Right there, in our first meeting, he made us realize that we felt the same way." He stated in another interview, "From the second we started playing again, he was very complimentary towards what we were all doing musically. He had a lot of nice things to say about my guitar playing, and to hear him say to Brian that he thought he was a great bass player was very cool." He also said, "Falling apart was probably the best thing that could have happened to us."

Stapp has recently finished an uncensored memoir which he describes as a "first-hand narrative of the journey from my roots – from the day I was born to the present." According to the Chicago Tribune, it is currently titled Sinner's Creed and it will be released on October 2, 2012 by Tyndale House.