"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."
"You can't give up in life. You just can't do it, no matter what it is that is going on."
"Every day is a good day above ground, and especially being able to play metal and being able to your craft and everything. You've gotta respect that, because it's something that can be taken away from you really quick."
"I suffered from asthma when I was a kid."
"Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking."
"Playing drums is how I communicate. It's how I speak to people. That's my God-given gift."
"You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself."
"The heart bleeds music no matter what, and it bleeds different types of music."
"You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover."
"No matter what comes your way, being a musician, you will never, ever learn to play it all."
"There was a time when I was beat down, and I lost my way."
"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."
"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."
"My advice always is to start very simple and master your timing and master the most simple beats that you can, and you just keep elevating from that. Trying to go right into playing fast is not necessarily the best way to go about it, because if you don't have your foundation locked in, it's hard to progress."
"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."
