Top 77 Shawn Crahan Quotes

There’s a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time I’ve been obsessed with the thought of time travel with my camera.

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

Because of Iowa, I like being in a different state that doesn’t even have grass and think that I smell fresh-cut grass. It brings me home.

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

After I started Slipknot, I was very honored because I got in touch with the masses. But I was very down on myself because I dropped out of college, which meant I dropped out on myself.

I can only be the madman that I’ve been so long.

I’ve got dreams now of reinventing ‘Hellraiser’ and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. ‘Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people’s movies. But if someone had a ‘Hellraiser’ script and had funding, and I loved it, let’s go.

What are Slipknot angry about? Everything, man!

It’s not about me. It’s about what I’m doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there’s 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.

We help kids and fans of all ages find their social scenes. Find their place. Find their demeanor.

I lost both my parents, and it wasn’t as hard as losing Paul, because you’ve got your whole life with them – you know it’s going to happen. With Paul being my best friend, I just didn’t see it coming.

I really believe Slipknot’s rich with history and rich with things.

I won’t even let anyone in my house. I’m a private person.

We, as a band, have never decided to go away. We’ve never even talked about it. It’s not even a question.

I don’t like people because I don’t trust them.

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

No albums are better or worse than each other, and they’re all important to our legacy and our story.

There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.

I still live in Des Moines.

I’ve been to Dachau.

The Backstreet Boys are easy; they’re cream. And then here we are, this nine-piece metal militia.

The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.

I was born to make movies.

I don’t wanna work with people who only want to make money.

I’m not gonna be like, ‘Farewell tour!’ then come back. Never say those words to fans – you have to come back if you say that.

I’ve been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.

My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I’ll die on the stage, man.

When I leave backstage, some of the fans ask if I’m a roadie, and I just tell them, ‘No, I’m the bus driver.’ And, of course, they believe it.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

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 don’t have time for heartache or problems, especially drama.

I’ve been inside the Anne Frank house. You’ve only read about Anne Frank in grade school. I’ve been in it. I’ve seen the diary. Things that teachers couldn’t teach you.

My oldest boy, when I do skip, he’s gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.

I may have won the only important lotto ever, which is life, but I am still going to die. We all are.

I want to bring art into everything.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

No, there’s other actor who could play The Clown in Slipknot.

I’m in the greatest band in the world, period. End of story. We’re the best.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

To the general public, just remember the people around you. You might not know what they’re thinking, so it’s always nice to be checked in on and to check in on people.

I’ve been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I’ve gone to the Louvre. I’m very big on Impressionistic paintings.

I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don’t want me to do that.

I’m not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there’s a noise in my head.

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That’s surreal. It’s even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They’re talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they’re talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.

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

We love everyone. We appreciate the support. It has helped us; it has been noted. It has been needed, and it just proves that Slipknot is not a band: we are a culture.

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

I get to be a kid forever.

You can look for something that’s equivalent to Slipknot, and you’re going to fail miserably.

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.

El Paso is the final Wild, Wild West city.

I decided that every year on my birthday, I’m going to release a new clown mask.

The one thing that has always been there for me is music. Before I met my wife, there was music. If my wife were to pass or something, there would be music to help me through that.

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

I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.

If I haven’t got someone to leave in five minutes for at least one of my films, then I’m not doing my job.

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.

I work really hard to portray things that you’re not going to see at Walmart.

I’m pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.

It’s very important every day that I get up and breathe, and I can say the word ‘Slipknot,’ and I still have friends that I do it with.

The goal every day of my life is to make some sort of artistic difference on a more profound level than just moshing.

It’s very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect – and I love – comic books.

I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records.

Slipknot is about integrity and reality!

I don’t look at my work as being violent. ‘Officer Downe’ is more campy than anything. It’s a comic book, so it’s funny to me.

The people who you think are the most solid are often the most hurt.

I’ve been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

Health is the most important thing you have on this planet if you’re gonna have a successful life.

Either people are going to start getting us, or they’re not. And if they’re not, I want them to quit wasting my time. I just want people to really get into the band.

What the world needs to know is that it’s okay to need help.

You’re either in music socially and culturally to get through life, or you’re not.

We try to bring something different for every tour.

Why should anybody see our faces? What have our clothes got to do with anything? So we got the masks and the overalls, and we set about developing the most insane live shows that anyone has ever seen.

You can have a wife – you can have a child or children – and be a rock n’ roller.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me – for my legacy and who I am.