It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.
Shawn Crahan
There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.
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.
El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.
I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.
The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.
Slipknot is about integrity and reality!
I want to bring art into everything.
'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.
The people who you think are the most solid are often the most hurt.
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.
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.
I was born to make movies.
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.
One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.
I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.
Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.
Health is the most important thing you have on this planet if you're gonna have a successful life.
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.
Slipknot started out of tragedy.
I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.
As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.
The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.
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.
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.
No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.
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.
I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.
I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.
What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!
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.
I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.
I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.
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.
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.
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.
I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.
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.
What the world needs to know is that it's okay to need help.
I'll die on the stage, man.
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.
I still live in Des Moines.
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.
I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.
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.
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.
I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.
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.
I don't usually let people see me cry.
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.
