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" Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush. "
Corey Taylor
Superhero
Time
Everyone
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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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You
Over
Place
" There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver. "
Corey Taylor
Positive
Strong
Darkness
" Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own. "
Corey Taylor
My Own
Dare
Me
" The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism. "
Corey Taylor
People
Miserable
Me
" I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me. "
Corey Taylor
Saying
Know
You
" 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. "
Corey Taylor
Anything
Me
Sell
" You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry! "
Corey Taylor
You
People
Crazy
" A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You. "
Corey Taylor
Strong
Song
Foundation
" I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do. "
Corey Taylor
Strong
Enough
Feel
" With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff. "
Corey Taylor
Writing
Guilt
Done
" Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans. "
Corey Taylor
Fans
Know
Metal
" I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love both. But 'Les Mis' is not only my favorite musical, but it's also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean. "
Corey Taylor
Kid
Book
Bones
" If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly. "
Corey Taylor
Check
Always
Fly
" I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books. "
Corey Taylor
Follow
Character
Time
" I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen. "
Corey Taylor
Hands
Ideas
Every Day
" So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. "
Corey Taylor
Good
Heart
Alone
" I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out. "
Corey Taylor
Body
Kind
Long
" I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know? "
Corey Taylor
Myself
Live
I Am
" The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously. "
Corey Taylor
Seriously
Take
Way
" I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.' "
Corey Taylor
Music
Place
Attitude
" As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond. "
Corey Taylor
Beginning
Think
Me
" I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic. "
Corey Taylor
Walk
Music
Man
" To be honest, and this comes out of left field, but I would love to do something with Jay-Z or Eminem. I have no limitations when it comes to the stuff I want to do musically. So to be able to do something like that I think would be really, really cool. "
Corey Taylor
Think
Musically
Love
" The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal. "
Corey Taylor
Rock And Roll
Fame
Kiss
" There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.' "
Corey Taylor
Dancing
You
Singing
" Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction. "
Corey Taylor
People
You
Art
" 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. "
Corey Taylor
Growing Up
Music
Reading
" There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach. "
Corey Taylor
Writing
Getting Older
Singing
" I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me. "
Corey Taylor
Spirit
You
Teen
" Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure. "
Corey Taylor
Chaos
Stone
Structure