Shawn Crahan

“Maybe I thought the movie business would be a little bit different than the rock n' roll business, but, in fact, they're the same animal, just packaged differently.”

“There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.”

“I couldn't imagine being in Slipknot and not going to Peru or Argentina or Moscow or St. Petersburg.”

“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.”

“'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.”

“Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.”

“I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.”

“I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.”

“Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.”

“I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.”

“I don't need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety - parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems - I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they're going to ge...”

“As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.”