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Understand this: This has never been a
popularity contest. The people we care for and work with know who
they are and how we feel about them. Slipknot has never been into
name dropping. So we dedicate this album [Iowa] to the ones that
matter most, our crazy fans and maggots all over the world. Stay
(sic), fuckers! - Slipknot
Will Corey ever do GAP
commercials??? "Fuck no! Negative. You will not and
if you ever do see us, dude, shoot us in the face 'cause we don't
know what the hell we're doing'. We're not in this for the fuckin'
modelling. We're not in this for any of that shit, dude. The music
mainly and fucking foremost. We don't give a fuck about all that
crap."
Corey Taylor, NME, about the
use of the goat on their albums "The goat, for us, is
an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from
Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all
that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal."
Shawn Crahan,
NME "I have one commandment. Be aware of your own
mortality. Because as you live and achieve, the clicker is going
down".
Corey Taylor, Metal Hammer, on
Slipknot producing "Iowa" "It was mainly Joey, he has
a great ear for that sort of stuff and I think he'll probably
continue to do that in his future.
Corey Taylor, NME, on why he
crashed with the road crew rather than stay in the
hotel "All this money Robertson makes through CBN (the
Christian Broadcasting Network, Robertson's religious channel) is
tax free. So, what paid for that hotel? And exactly what happens to
the profits of CBN, Pat? Why don't you tell me that before you get
in my fucking face, you lover of the dollar sign? Pat Robertson
doesn't worship the cross. He worships the fucking dollar
sign."
Corey Taylor, NME, on why the
tour was called "Kill The Industry" tour "There's a
song on the new record called 'Heretic Anthem' and the lyrics go if
your 555, then I'm 666/ what's it like to be a heretic? Now, 555 is
the sign of man, and 666 is the sign of the devil. It's basically
comparing ourselves not just to other bands, but also to the whole
fucking industry that surrounds us. We are above everything you
fucking want us to do. We're not gonna do it, and you can't make us.
It's beautiful that it works out that way. And what's it like to be
a heretic? is basically us accusing the record industry of
destroying an industry that should be about emotion."
Joey Jordison, Kerrang!, on
what his favorite joke is "Oasis. Those guys suck dick
and we want to fight them."
Joey Jordison, Kerrang!, on
his most embarassing moment "Once in grade school, we
were watching a movie with the lights out and I puked all over my
desk. I was so freaked out that I tried to scoop it all up in my
arms. It ruled, though, because it caused a 'vomitory'-three or four
other people puked."
Joey Jordison, Kerrang!, on
his modelling career "If I ever modelled for Calvin
Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a
baseball bat."
Shawn Crahan,
Kerrang! "They hurt, they love, they hate - everything
that Slipknot does. We try not to talk about politics or religion,
we talk about being human and dealing with life. When I get onstage,
these people know me through the music and I look out and see them
hitting themselves in the head and they won't stop. Their knuckles
are bloody, their eyes are black, but when they talk to me I see
that they're smart kids. There's the connection."
Shawn Crahan, Melody
Maker "We make sure everything we do is perfect. We
spent too many years worshipping bands who fuck up."
Shawn Crahan, Melody Maker,
about Slipknot's image "If anything, it was a totally
anti-image thing, no cool hairstyles, no cool clothes, no rock star
bullshit. If our anti-image has turned into and image then cool -
after five minutes of seeing the band I don't think anyone pays
attention to it. They pay attention to the music. And that's why
we're here, image really doesn't last long enough to take you round
the world and it certainly doesn't give you fans as hardcore as ours
are."
Corey Taylor; Metal
Hammer "I never knew my father, he bailed out before I
was born. I don't even know his name, which is why I have these
tatoos. This one means 'Father' (points to right side of neck) and
this one means 'Death' (left side of neck). It used to bother me a
lot and then I was like 'Fuck it, I'm not going to dwell on it'. We
probably lived in 25 states when I was between the ages of four and
eleven. When you spend a lot of time alone, you start to develop a
kind of personal imagination. My mom wasn't strict at all, but the
boyfriends she had would be complete fucking pricks to my sister and
me, so I became stand of fish to people like that."
Corey Taylor; Metal Edge
(March 2000) "PETA. I would make everyone eat raw
meat. [why] because I could."
Mick Thomson on the
seven-string guitar fad" Seven-string guitars are gay
- they're nothing more than a trend. How many guitarists use all
seven strings anyway? Steve Vai can, John Petrucci can. But what
about Max Cavalera from Soulfly? He only uses four strings and
noone's heavier than him."
Joey reacting to the ban
slapped on them at Wolverhampton "I'm going to shit in
a box and send it to Wolverhampton council! We'll see how acceptable
they find that! Anyway, I'm sure I can bribe some of these
councilors with poker money I've won in our dressing room."
Slipknot on Korn and Limp
Bizkit "Some people may think that we hate Korn and
Limp Bizkit, but that's not entirely true, we just hate Korn's 3rd
album and Limp Bizkit's 2nd album. Their 1st albums, however, did
greatly influence us. We do like Korn's album Issues, some of it
does sound like the 1st one, but they still could have perfected it.
We've never met either of them, but we'd like to."
Corey, sending a message to
Fred Durst "You might have a lot of money and be
famous, but the next time you talk shit about Slipknot and it's fans
....we will kill you."
Shawn, on the purpose of the
masks "What we want to show kids is that you can come
to a Slipknot show and not worry about what you look like or what
group you're in."
Joey, foreseeing the future of
Slipknot "No, I don't think in that way. Being of the
anonymous factor is to keep all the rock star cliche and the ego
bullshit gone, so the bigger the band gets we can remain grounded.
We can keep the music focused and not rob the kids of any music. You
see a lot of bands, as soon as they start getting big, closing
endorsements, getting involved with money, producing videos, going
out with fucking porn stars and that's not where it started. What
got them big is when they were grounded. It got to a certain point
and then they moved away from it and we don't ever want to move away
from it. That's why he anonymity comes in."
Shawn on Ross
Robinson "When we were trying to get signed, there was
kind of a bidding war, and we were having a hard time because of the
way we are live. Ross has an imprint now with Roadrunner, I AM
Records. Ross was going to take us, fund our album himself, and make
sure it got where it was supposed to go. That's how much he believed
in us. He didn't have to do that because of the Roadrunner thing,
but that's how much he dug us. He's such a friend now; he's an
incredible human being. The really cool thing about Ross is that he
lets the band have the final say. All you have to do is say, 'Man,
you added this effect on guitar and we're not really digging it.'
Ross just said, 'Done.' No arguing. We didn't lose sleep over
anything. He's behind you as an artist, which is an incredible
feeling, being able to create what you're born with. We'll
definitely be working with Ross again."
Shawn
Crahan "We're a fucking army and we're fighting a war.
When you're fighting a war there's gonna be casualties...how far can
I go? I'll rip off my arm..."
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