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.

Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.

If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't

People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

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