MICK THOMSON No one knows who they are until they’re in a different situation. People think, Oh, I’m really grounded. I’m faithful. I would never cheat on my girlfriend or my wife. Oh, really? Ever had extremely hot pussy dangling in front of your face every fucking night willing to give it up? No? But at some point when that is offered to you, how do you respond? Everything’s changing. Finances, fucking relationships. You can never really know who your friends are. How do you trust anybody that you’ve met once you’re fucking famous? Everybody “loves” you now.

THOMSON I was disgusted by those of us that got sucked into that world of sex and drugs. I wasn’t hanging out in the dressing room and chasing skirt every night. Sorry. Not my thing. I just avoided people. On days off, you’d never see me out of my hotel room. I’d go, OK, fuck. Now I got about 16 hours where I don’t have to hear anyone else’s fuckin’ voice. It doesn’t say ‘Hate’ in Japanese on my fuckin’ forearm for no reason. I’d rather be alone than be around a bunch of people that I don’t care about, don’t care about me or are fuckin’ full of shit. I can sit home and play Xbox, play my guitar, beat off, sleep. What else do you need?

THOMSON I should dig Steve Richards up and beat his fucking corpse. Every once in a while I think there may be a God that put a cyst on his brainstem and caused him to be a fuckin’ zombie. The dude just stepped into our lives and tried to cause rifts between band members because, as long as you’ve got them occupied, you can be raping them and stealing from them and they’re not noticing because they’re too caught up in stupid shit to see a bigger picture.

from: Slipknot on Darkness, Anger, Addiction Behind 'Iowa': "We Almost All Died"