People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.

I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

I do music to tell people my thoughts and opinions about life, emotions, politics, everything.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.

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

Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

QTE is a very strange thing... it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.

I think it's a mistake to limit ourselves to a certain audience when we could reach everybody.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

For me, the one thing I've got going for me in terms of my attributes as a musician is vision.

If you think meet-and-greets are fundamentally stupid, then you're never not gonna think that.

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

Every once in a while, it seems like the cosmos part, and something great plops into your lap.

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

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