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I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

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Corey Taylor
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 8
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My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
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Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.
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If you feel like talking, you talk, if you don't, you don't
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I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.
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Show me on the doll where Fun is a rock band.
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But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.
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You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.
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I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.
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The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.
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When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.
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The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.
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I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.
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I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
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I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.
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Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.
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Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.
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