Corey Taylor Quotes

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.

I'm usually the one who creates most of my work. I have a lot of different ideas that I want to do, so I'm always like, 'Get on it, girl.'

The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.