Most known for being the lead singer for iconic rock band Creed, Scott Stapp is now flying solo as a Christian singer and just released his second studio album, Proof of Life. Before Stapp accepted Jesus Christ back into his life as his savior, he lived the Rock n' Roll lifestyle: sex, drugs and multiple suicide when he was the front man of Creed.

"With the lifestyle I was living," said Stapp to The Topeka Capital-Journal. "I'm really blessed and thank the Lord every day that I made it past the age of 27."

Before he was famous, the 40-year-old Florida native ran away from home when he a teenager. Stapp ran away from home because he did not get along with his stepdad who was a devout Pentecostal minister.

"The electric guitar was seen as the devil's instrument," said Stapp to The Topeka Capital-Journal. "You couldn't be a Christian and play rock 'n' roll."

In a previous interview, Stapp pulls no punches when describing his troubled childhood and his battle with alcohol in his book Sinner's Creed.

"...A lot of anger and then a lot of hurt... Then just sadness. All those things that I think I kind of put away because I was in survival mode as a kid kind of came back to me..." said Stapp in an interview according to Jesus Freak Hideout. "...Some of the things that happened to me when I was battling alcoholism, during the time, were so traumatic. Then I was recovering and just fighting for my life and I really didn't get to step back and really see the extent of the experience and how it affected those I loved around me. It definitely allowed me to really put some things to rest, but it pulled some things to the surface in order to put them to rest."

Stapp has a message for everyone who may be going through trials and struggles like he did.

"...Don't give up. Hold on to Jeremiah 29:11. God wouldn't take us this far in our lives, when we're trying to live for Him, to turn His back on us. Just hold on for another day," and that's what I believe every day."