Quotes from Shawn Crahan

I still live in Des Moines.

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 won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

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.

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

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

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 ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

The one thing that has always been there for me is music. Before I met my wife, there was music. If my wife were to pass or something, there would be music to help me through that.

To the general public, just remember the people around you. You might not know what they're thinking, so it's always nice to be checked in on and to check in on people.

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

I've been inside the Anne Frank house. You've only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I've been in it. I've seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn't teach you.

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.

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

I don't have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.

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.

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

I wouldn't disrespect myself or my art with any imitations.

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.

I'm not gonna be like, 'Farewell tour!' then come back. Never say those words to fans - you have to come back if you say that.

Slipknot is about integrity and reality!