Shawn Crahan

“I've been to Dachau.”

“The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.”

“One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.”

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

“The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.”

“I would never, ever change the formula of what we would do, but what I want to do is go down somewhere really conceptual. Really artistic. Really theme-oriented. But I don't want to push anything.”

“We love everyone. We appreciate the support. It has helped us; it has been noted. It has been needed, and it just proves that Slipknot is not a band: we are a culture.”

“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.”

“I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.”

“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.”

“It's very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word 'Slipknot,' and I still have friends that I do it with.”

“I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.”

“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.”

“Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.”

“We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.”

“I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.”

“I'll die on the stage, man.”

“I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.”

“Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.”

“No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.”