I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That's surreal. It's even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They're talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they're talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.