Any kind of idea of fame - that has been shelved.
Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.
Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.
Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.
That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.
There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been brutal.
Proper Sabbath is Sabbath with Bill Ward. I'm sorry, it just is.
I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.
Without Metallica, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents' basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars' drum beats, beat by beat.
I'm used to living out of a suitcase.
I don't pay attention to critics.
I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something.
That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's non-stop.
Slipknot is hard work; I don't care what anybody says.
I've been a fan of Zombie's since the beginning. I've toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.
I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as being responsible for a lot of the songwriting.
I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.
I'm not more into one scene than any other, and that's why I feel very lucky to be able to go into two different styles of music and be successful at both.
The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.
'Vol. 3' has broken down more barriers for us. We worked with different styles on this album. It's more musically mature in arrangement and is conceptual.
