Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I don't usually let people see me cry.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

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.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

Because of Iowa, I like being in a different state that doesn't even have grass and think that I smell fresh-cut grass. It brings me home.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I don't like people because I don't trust them.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

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.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I was born to make movies.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I've been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I'm not drawn to people that much unless there's a really serious energy happening, but I'll take a lot of pictures of trees, or I'm always staring at the ground. I'll see an oil stain that looks like something out of 'Lord of the Rings' or something, and that's what kind of calls to me... I'm drawn to that aspect of photography.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

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.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

Shawn Crahan
Shawn Crahan

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.