Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

I sin like crazy, but I protect my people.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

I'm really proud of the fact that anywhere, at any time, I can make music. A lot of people can't do that.