When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

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.

But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.

RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

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

It's one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.