Shawn Crahan

“We try to bring something different for every tour.”

“My oldest boy, when I do skip, he's gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.”

“No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.”

“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.”

“Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.”

“I'm not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there's a noise in my head.”

“I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.”

“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.”

“I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records.”

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

“I was born to make movies.”

“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 want to bring art into everything.”

“You're either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you're not.”

“After I started Slipknot, I was very honored because I got in touch with the masses. But I was very down on myself because I dropped out of college, which meant I dropped out on myself.”

“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.”

“Health is the most important thing you have on this planet if you're gonna have a successful life.”

“People are animals, man.”

“I can't speak for anybody else but myself 'cause I usually get in trouble when I speak for other people, so I've learned my lesson not to do that, but for me, I've been known to pace for quite a while when I walk onstage, and that's just because I'm becoming one with my shell.”

“I really believe Slipknot's rich with history and rich with things.”