Shawn Crahan
I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.Collection: Birthday
I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Beauty
I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.Collection: Music
Health is the most important thing you have on this planet if you're gonna have a successful life.Collection: Health
I'm not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there's a noise in my head.
No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.
Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.
It's very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect - and I love - comic books.
I don't have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.
I get to be a kid forever.
You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.
We try to bring something different for every tour.
I'm in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We're the best.
You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.
You can have a wife - you can have a child or children - and be a rock n' roller.
I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.
I don't need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety - parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems - I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they're going to get that at Knotfest.
I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.
No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.
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.
I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.
Slipknot is about integrity and reality!
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.
If I haven't got someone to leave in five minutes for at least one of my films, then I'm not doing my job.
People are animals, man.
The Backstreet Boys are easy; they're cream. And then here we are, this nine-piece metal militia.
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.
I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.
El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.
It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.
I can only be the madman that I've been so long.
There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.
I really believe Slipknot's rich with history and rich with things.
I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.
I've got dreams now of reinventing 'Hellraiser' and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. 'Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people's movies. But if someone had a 'Hellraiser' script and had funding, and I loved it, let's go.
I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records.
We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question.
The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.
We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.
I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.
In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.
I want to bring art into everything.
I would never, ever change the formula of what we would do, but what I want to do is go down somewhere really conceptual. Really artistic. Really theme-oriented. But I don't want to push anything.
There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.
It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.
The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.
My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.
I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.
I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.