You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

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

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.

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.

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?

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

PETA. I would make everyone eat raw meat. [why] because I could.