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Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actor, and author, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the bands Slipknot and Stone Sour.

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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.

Fiction, Hands, Ideas, Men, Novel, Starting

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.

Home, Iowa, Places, Proud, Special

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.

Comfortable, Heart, Painful, People, Strength, World

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

Matter, Play, Sense, Song, Write, Writing

So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

Cutting, Father, Hippy, Knees, Onto, People

If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.

Check, Checks, Fly, Taken, Want

Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

Anchors, Bad, Memorable, Real, Reality, Straight

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

Chaos, Darkness, Light, Sour, Stones

I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

Book, Cabin, Log Cabins, Same, Tired

It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

Night, Nights, Remember, Stories

I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.

Dark, Heart, Hearts, Karma, Stakes

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.

Chili, Coupons, Feet, Foot, Handful, Jesus

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.

Care, Cross, Memorable, Son, Struggle, Worst

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Mind, Regurgitation, Seven Deadly Sins, Tool, Tools

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

All Time, Knows, My Favorite, Spiderman, Superhero, Supervillain

Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

Country, Home, Memorable, Backdrop, Amazing, Natives

I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens. " And it worked out.

Guy, Kind, Point, See, Together, Years

The way I make music is just a reflection of how I think music should be made. Where you sit in a studio, and you make music, and you use technology to your advantage, not to hide all the blaring mistakes.

Mistake, Mistakes, Reflection, Technology, Think

I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.

Albums, Anniversary, Bottom, Feelings, Les, Listening

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

Doubt, Doubts, Harbors, Lingering, People

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