Quotes from Joey Jordison

Slipknot's music is very technical and intense, and it's not easy to play, but that's what makes it special. What's so gratifying about playing a show that is that intense is when you get off the stage, and you know you really delivered at the top of your ability and performance; that is what makes it all worthwhile.

The simplest beats, on what rock music or any music has been formed on, can be the toughest beats to execute and perform, because it's really easy to not respect a simple 4/4 beat, because people always want to play fast.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

When someone's in the hospital - be it a family member or anyone that has something wrong with them - if you love 'em, then you visit them.

I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?

I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they'll surface; maybe they'll never be heard, but I don't translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won't use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.

I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured thing; it's just the way I live.

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.

The mask is a pain thing. It's clammy, and your body is moving all over, and you're locked into this thing, and you can't get out.

Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.

How I found out is, I landed in Des Moines from a plane ride back from the Rob Zombie tour. I was, like, 'Okay, cool, I'm home. I can finally get some rest.' Once I landed, I turned my phone on, and my manager rang, and I'm, like, 'Oh, what?' He said, 'Paul Gray just died.'

I've been a fan of Zombie's since the beginning. I've toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.

'Vol. 3' is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.

When everyone tells you, 'No, no, no,' your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.