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

Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

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

I didn't write my speech until the night before, and even then I refused to write it out like I would say it, preferring to keep cribbed notes I could come back to if necessary. I wanted this to feel like a conversation because it was what I wanted to say that mattered, not how it looked on paper.

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

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.