A biography for Shawn Crahanhasn’t been written yet.
“We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.”
“What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!”
“I don't like people because I don't trust them.”
“I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.”
“I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.”
“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.”
“I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.”
“I can only be the madman that I've been so long.”
“The Backstreet Boys are easy; they're cream. And then here we are, this nine-piece metal militia.”
“We will never recreate 'Iowa.'”
“What the world needs to know is that it's okay to need help.”
“I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.”
“'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.”
“I don't have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.”
“You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.”
“I don't usually let people see me cry.”
“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.”
“I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.”
“I'm not gonna be like, 'Farewell tour!' then come back. Never say those words to fans - you have to come back if you say that.”
“It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.”