There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

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

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

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

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.