What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Open your heart and we will melt the key.

It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.

The shortest distance between two points is your mind. It's not a straight line.

Responsibility means being able to respond to whatever situation you may face in your life.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

It sounds crazy, but I promise you it's true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out

Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

Beating people up is a positive thing.