Slipknot is my baby. It is my life. It means everything. Everything I do means the world to me, but when it comes down to it, Slipknot... that's my blood.

Without blood and pain, there is no Slipknot.

Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.

'My Swan Song' - that song is so depressing but uplifting at the same time, you know what I mean?

The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music.

The doctors said I might not be able to walk again. Today, I can almost run, but back then, I couldn't even stand up. I was bed-ridden. If I wanted to turn over in bed, I had to move my legs with my hands. I was in and out of the hospital for months.

Metal music is a very fan-oriented, fan-protected music - very sacred.

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

Slipknot's not about who's in the band. It's a lifeblood. It's a force. It's about a connection between a bunch of people.

The riffs, lyrics, and drums of 'Open Your Omen' will tell you a lot.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

There was a time when I was beat down, and I lost my way.

The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn't repeat itself. The players didn't stick to a format or formula.

How I found out is, I landed in Des Moines from a plane ride back from the Rob Zombie tour. I was, like, 'Okay, cool, I'm home. I can finally get some rest.' Once I landed, I turned my phone on, and my manager rang, and I'm, like, 'Oh, what?' He said, 'Paul Gray just died.'

I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured thing; it's just the way I live.

Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You're punching everything, really fast, concentrated.

The mask is a pain thing. It's clammy, and your body is moving all over, and you're locked into this thing, and you can't get out.

The simplest beats, on what rock music or any music has been formed on, can be the toughest beats to execute and perform, because it's really easy to not respect a simple 4/4 beat, because people always want to play fast.

I pretty much use the same stuff live that I use in the studio. I don't like the feel to change too much.

I've been using Pearl for so long, ever since I was a kid. Same thing with Paiste. They have both taken such great care of me, and I can't thank them enough.

I think that no matter how old you get, you are always learning about yourself.

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't play the way that I do.

I have a ton of Slipknot demos that I have at home. Maybe some day they'll surface; maybe they'll never be heard, but I don't translate them to any other band: they still stay in the Slipknot safe. I won't use them for anyone else besides Slipknot, if that ever happens again.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

With me, I would never lose my sight of music.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

Without Slipknot, I would not necessarily be where I am today.

I saw Kiss on 'The Dick Clark Show' in, like, 1980 or something, and 'Kiss Alive!' was the first record of theirs I had.

What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.

Without Metallica, we wouldn't have a lot of the bands that we have now.

'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.

When you have the power of music within your soul and your heart, nothing can stop you.

Slipknot will never die. As long as we're together, it just won't. When it's time for us to end, we'll know when it's time.

Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.

When someone's in the hospital - be it a family member or anyone that has something wrong with them - if you love 'em, then you visit them.

Life takes you down weird paths.

I didn't quit Slipknot. I would never have quit Slipknot, ever.

The first mask I had was an original pale-white kabuki mask.

When everyone tells you, 'No, no, no,' your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.

Every day, I look at life different; I don't take things for granted.

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.