Quotes from Shawn Crahan

You can have a wife - you can have a child or children - and be a rock n' roller.

I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.

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.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

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

I lost both my parents, and it wasn't as hard as losing Paul, because you've got your whole life with them - you know it's going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn't see it coming.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

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

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 forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.

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

I'm certainly interested in taking a photo with anyone who took time out of their busy schedule in life to say hello.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

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

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

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

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.

We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We've never even talked about it. It's not even a question.

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

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