SHAWN CRAHAN

Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I don't usually let people see me cry.

Because of Iowa, I like being in a different state that doesn't even have grass and think that I smell fresh-cut grass. It brings me home.

I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.

I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

I can't speak for anybody else but myself 'cause I usually get in trouble when I speak for other people, so I've learned my lesson not to do that, but for me, I've been known to pace for quite a while when I walk onstage, and that's just because I'm becoming one with my shell.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

Either people are going to start getting us, or they're not. And if they're not, I want them to quit wasting my time. I just want people to really get into the band.

I'm in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We're the best.

I'm not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there's a noise in my head.

Why should anybody see our faces? What have our clothes got to do with anything? So we got the masks and the overalls, and we set about developing the most insane live shows that anyone has ever seen.

You can have a wife - you can have a child or children - and be a rock n' roller.

It's very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word 'Slipknot,' and I still have friends that I do it with.

After I started Slipknot, I was very honored because I got in touch with the masses. But I was very down on myself because I dropped out of college, which meant I dropped out on myself.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

No, there's other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

I don't look at my work as being violent. 'Officer Downe' is more campy than anything. It's a comic book, so it's funny to me.

I would never, ever change the formula of what we would do, but what I want to do is go down somewhere really conceptual. Really artistic. Really theme-oriented. But I don't want to push anything.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.