I pretty much use the same stuff live that I use in the studio. I don't like the feel to change too much.
I've been using Pearl for so long, ever since I was a kid. Same thing with Paiste. They have both taken such great care of me, and I can't thank them enough.
I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.
I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.
You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.
The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.
No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.
Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.
I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they'll surface; maybe they'll never be heard, but I don't translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won't use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.
I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.
I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.
With me, I would never lose my sight of music.
What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.
Without Slipknot, I would not necessarily be where I am today.
I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.
What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.
Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.
'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.
I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.
