Musician

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

Either people are going to start getting us, or they're not. And if they're not, I want them to quit wasting my time. I just want people to really get into the band.

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.

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 couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.

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.

I get to be a kid forever.

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'm in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We're the best.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

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

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.

It's very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect - and I love - comic books.