Corey Taylor Quotes

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

It's very special that I can go through things - and write them down and record them - and so many people can relate. Not everybody can get out who they are and really feel better after they write.