It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

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 still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.

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.

I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

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