Pop Quiz: Scott Stapp

Pop Quiz: Scott Stapp

Aidin Vaziri | Scott Stapp, 32, is the last honest rock star -- getting too drunk to finish shows, picking fights with other bands' girlfriends, making sex tapes with Kid Rock. Oh, and how about when earlier this year he married former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat in Miami and got arrested the next day at Los Angeles International Airport for public intoxication on the way to his honeymoon in Hawaii? Why can't everyone be just like him? After years as the front man for multiplatinum-selling Florida Christian rock band Creed, last year Stapp released his solo debut, "The Great Divide." It's awesome, in a shirtless guy standing on top of a mountain screaming his head off kind of a way. Stapp is currently on tour with INXS.

Scott Stapp
Q: You're opening for INXS. Are you worried people are going to be like, "Oh, he's going to be drunk and fall over," or "Maybe he's going to punch INXS in the face"?
A: Not at all, man. That's what I kind of enjoy doing the most, winning over new people and playing in front of an audience that's like, "OK, prove yourself to me." It reminds me of 1997 when I was in Creed. Back then it was, "He's this Christian guy who thinks he's better than everybody."
Q: In a way, being Christian is worse than being wasted.
A: Now people relate to me more and people understand me more. It's weird because that's the perspective from the rock 'n' roll industry.
Q: If you were a rapper like Ludacris, you would make a whole album about being drunk at the airport and it would win 18 Grammys.
A: I feel you, man. I think it all goes back to people's preconceived ideas of who I am. That's what I keep going back to. I never came out saying I was this or that.
Q: And what's the problem with making a sex tape with Kid Rock?
A: It was just something that happened, and I would have liked for it not to be public and to stay in the dark. When it starts affecting people around you, then it's not something to be brushed aside.
Q: At least you learned one thing: not to have a video camera in the room.
A: You could say that again.
Q: That's a sign of maturity and growth.