It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.
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 can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.
I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.
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.
What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!
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.
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.
I'll die on the stage, man.
No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.
'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.
As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.
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.
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.
Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.
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.
Slipknot is about integrity and reality!
