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.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

That's where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do - most of my style comes straight from death metal.

There is nothing whatsoever friendly about Slipknot. Corey may have a singing voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been brutal.

Proper Sabbath is Sabbath with Bill Ward. I'm sorry, it just is.

I just can't bring myself to see Sabbath without Bill Ward, because he was such an integral part of that band.

Without Metallica, I wouldn't be doing what I am doing. I have every Metallica record, of course, and I would spend hours on drums in my parents' basement with the stereo behind me, cranking those records and learning Lars' drum beats, beat by beat.

I'm used to living out of a suitcase.

I sleep music. I wake up, and there's a riff in my head. Every step I take, there's a riff, a beat, or something.

That's the way a musician is. You're isolated, in a weird way, because music is haunting you as much as it's loving you. It's non-stop.

Slipknot is hard work; I don't care what anybody says.

I've been a fan of Zombie's since the beginning. I've toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.

I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as being responsible for a lot of the songwriting.

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.

I'm not more into one scene than any other, and that's why I feel very lucky to be able to go into two different styles of music and be successful at both.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

'Vol. 3' has broken down more barriers for us. We worked with different styles on this album. It's more musically mature in arrangement and is conceptual.

'Vol. 3' is the most pleasing of our albums to me. And I want to keep making albums that are different from each other. And you can bet all our albums will have that twist that only Slipknot can do.

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

I'm so excited 'Doctor Who''s coming back. It's a great show, wild and exciting. I watched it as a kid, and it freaked me out.

When I first heard Korn, they blew me away, and I've been a fan ever since.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

The communication within Sinsaenum is really, really cool. As extreme as the music is, you might not realize how much we respect each other and how much we coach each other and how well we communicate.

I got over the transverse myelitis stuff; I'm walking great, and I'm playing faster; I mean, I'm just playing all the time. I have to, just as exercise.

The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you're playing extreme metal like this... it just conquers. It conquers everything.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

On the records that I grew up with and loved, every song was unique - it's almost as if you had a different journey every time - and the drums were big part of that story.

A great drum record has to sound good; in fact, it should sound special. It should capture the richness and the actual tones of the drums themselves, regardless of who is playing.

If you only play metal, it's going to be very apparent that you're a one-dimensional drummer.

First and foremost, I make music to satisfy my creative urges, but at the same time, I know my fans are waiting, so they're the ones that push me to keep going.

There is no such thing as an easy Slipknot show. It doesn't exist. It's tough, but we wouldn't like it if it was easy.

Slipknot's music is very technical and intense, and it's not easy to play, but that's what makes it special. What's so gratifying about playing a show that is that intense is when you get off the stage, and you know you really delivered at the top of your ability and performance; that is what makes it all worthwhile.