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Rocker Scott Weiland conquered his drug problems when he learned to separate his private and public images.
The troubled Velvet Revolver star has been the victim of a well-documented addiction to heroin since launching to fame in Stone Temple Pilots in the early nineties, but he's convinced his drug demons tormented him when he forgot to leave his live persona onstage.
He says, "I always looked at myself as an artist in the studio, and a performer onstage, the dark clown playing out dark theatre."
"It's performance art. If I can't be taken over by that character then there's no use in doing it at all. I'm not myself onstage, it's another person who I allow to take over the person you're speaking to."
"That guy onstage is the person I used to be... I used to get confused, though, and that's why I used to have so many problems getting loaded all the time. I used to get confused about who I really was."
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