A biography for Shawn Crahanhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.”
“I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.”
“There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.”
“We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question.”
“I get to be a kid forever.”
“I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by 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 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.”
“Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.”
“It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.”
“You can have a wife - you can have a child or children - and be a rock n' roller.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“Slipknot started out of tragedy.”
“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.”
“El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.”
“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.”