Jeff Gutt

“I've got thick skin.”

“I just try to do what I can, control what I can, and let the rest handle itself.”

“And I'd spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff - paying your dues, I guess.”

“I had walked away from the music industry because I had a certain integrity and all that.”

“I was into Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, the blues.”

“Making music with people is a very intimate process.”

“I've had a record deal before and I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do and I thought that would be it. By the end of it, you know, I hated myself.”

“So I just try to be me and feel the songs and feel the energy of the band with me.”

“I have my own label and I'm my first artist.”

“I've been trying my whole life to get to this point, and it's finally here. It's an amazing record, and it happens to be with Stone Temple Pilots. I mean, what could be better than that?”

“Every night on stage it gets more and more comfortable. I think it really shows in the performances and just being able to revel in it and do it and live the dream I've thought about for so long.”

“I just do what the music tells me to do.”

“I wanted to be in control of my own destiny.”

“I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.”

“I got my teeth kicked in for a good 25 years.”

“At the end of the day, I'm just trying to feel the music and be free - as free as possible.”

“I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.”

“The first gig I did was at the Troubadour when they were announcing who I was and they broadcast it live on SiriusXM radio. It doesn't get any more high pressure than that.”

“I think back to the Eagles, Elton John, people like that when I think about the Troubadour. It's an iconic place.”

“After I started singing, I'd go to my dad's records I grew up with in his house listening to: Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, the Carpenters, Bob Seger, Neil Diamond, voices that resonate with you, that you know who they are right away.”