Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Shawn Crahan
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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 won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.
I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.
I was born to make movies.
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.
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 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.
What the world needs to know is that it's okay to need help.
I've been obsessed with death since I was a little kid.
I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.
I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.
As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.
I liked playing drums in the band, but the truth is, I always knew they were going to call Joey to play drums.
One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.
My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.
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.
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.
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.
We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.
Corey Taylor won't be mad at me saying, but I didn't think there'd be other bands. I thought we'd wear masks forever.
'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.
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.
I still live in Des Moines.
I'll die on the stage, man.
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.
There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.
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.
I love music, and I can't imagine life without music.
The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.
I'm not a fan of the sound quality of our first album, because there's a noise in my head.
I don't usually let people see me cry.
My wife loves elephants and compares me to a big bull elephant.
We will never recreate 'Iowa.'
I didn't finish college, and I was very sad about that because I don't think I gave myself a chance to learn, to prove to myself that I could learn.
I'm pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.
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.
I'm not drawn to people that much unless there's a really serious energy happening, but I'll take a lot of pictures of trees, or I'm always staring at the ground. I'll see an oil stain that looks like something out of 'Lord of the Rings' or something, and that's what kind of calls to me... I'm drawn to that aspect of photography.
I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.
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.
Slipknot started out of tragedy.
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.
No albums are better or worse than each other, and they're all important to our legacy and our story.
I'm certainly interested in taking a photo with anyone who took time out of their busy schedule in life to say hello.
Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.
The people who you think are the most solid are often the most hurt.
This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.
People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.
I'm a pretty aggressive person, and I'm very saturated.
I've been to Dachau.
I jumped off my lift, smashed my knee pretty good - my meniscus and everything. So I had to have surgery.
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.
Paul just had a way about him that was different. I was really attracted to his writing.
I work really hard to portray things that you're not going to see at Walmart.
I don't like people because I don't trust them.
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.
It's just upsetting how the world is - the need and the necessity to override the value of life.
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 can't speak for anybody else but myself 'cause I usually get in trouble when I speak for other people, so I've learned my lesson not to do that, but for me, I've been known to pace for quite a while when I walk onstage, and that's just because I'm becoming one with my shell.
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.
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.
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