A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.

Shawn Crahan

War Time Your

It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.

Shawn Crahan

Life World Value Of Life

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

Shawn Crahan

You Thing Thin

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

Shawn Crahan

Art World Up

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

Shawn Crahan

Wild West Wild West

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

Shawn Crahan

Won Use Us

The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.

Shawn Crahan

Yourself Yours Your

Slipknot is about integrity and reality!

Shawn Crahan

T Reality Real

I want to bring art into everything.

Shawn Crahan

Art Want Very

'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.

Shawn Crahan

Violent T Rican

The people who you think are the most solid are often the most hurt.

Shawn Crahan

You Who Think

My oldest boy, when I do skip, he's gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.

Shawn Crahan

Yin Wit While

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

Shawn Crahan

Life Very Use

I was born to make movies.

Shawn Crahan

Movies T Movie

I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.

Shawn Crahan

Sad Chance Very

One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.

Shawn Crahan

Ways Way Wanted

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

Shawn Crahan

Truth Yin Were

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

Shawn Crahan

Writing Way Us

Health is the most important thing you have on this planet if you're gonna have a successful life.

Shawn Crahan

Success Life Health

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

Shawn Crahan

Car Yin Where

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Shawn Crahan

Art Age Tragedy

I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.

Shawn Crahan

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

Shawn Crahan

The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.

Shawn Crahan

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

Shawn Crahan

Why should anybody see our faces? What have our clothes got to do with anything? So we got the masks and the overalls, and we set about developing the most insane live shows that anyone has ever seen.

Shawn Crahan

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

Shawn Crahan

When I leave backstage, some of the fans ask if I'm a roadie, and I just tell them, 'No, I'm the bus driver.' And, of course, they believe it.

Shawn Crahan

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

Shawn Crahan

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

Shawn Crahan

What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!

Shawn Crahan

I don't look at my work as being violent. 'Officer Downe' is more campy than anything. It's a comic book, so it's funny to me.

Shawn Crahan

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

Shawn Crahan

I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.

Shawn Crahan

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

Shawn Crahan

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

Shawn Crahan

It's very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word 'Slipknot,' and I still have friends that I do it with.

Shawn Crahan

I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.

Shawn Crahan

I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.

Shawn Crahan

What the world needs to know is that it's okay to need help.

Shawn Crahan

I'll die on the stage, man.

Shawn Crahan

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.

Shawn Crahan

I still live in Des Moines.

Shawn Crahan

To the general public, just remember the people around you. You might not know what they're thinking, so it's always nice to be checked in on and to check in on people.

Shawn Crahan

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

Shawn Crahan

I'm not gonna be like, 'Farewell tour!' then come back. Never say those words to fans - you have to come back if you say that.

Shawn Crahan

Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.

Shawn Crahan

I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.

Shawn Crahan

The one thing that has always been there for me is music. Before I met my wife, there was music. If my wife were to pass or something, there would be music to help me through that.

Shawn Crahan

I don't usually let people see me cry.

Shawn Crahan

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them - you know it's going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn't see it coming.

Shawn Crahan