13 Great Corey Taylor Quotes: Slipknot Singer on Cupcakes, Chaos, the Apocalypse | Revolver

13 Great Corey Taylor Quotes: Slipknot Singer on Cupcakes, Chaos, the Apocalypse

"Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong"
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Corey Taylor, Slipknot, 2017
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We'll be blunt: Corey Taylor has one great, big mouth — both literally and figuratively — and he's proud of it. If the man's omnipresence in the hard-rock and metal press over the past two decades doesn't hammer home the aforementioned point, then his prolific authorial career — four books in seven years, tackling everything from music and religion to politics and addiction — certainly will.

We've dug deep into the Iowan's overstuffed treasure trove of profound insights, unfiltered anecdotes and knockout zingers to compile a list of some of his most quotable quotes. Here are the fruits of our labors: 13 nuggets of wisdom straight from the Great Big Mouth himself.

"I grew up in a trailer park eating mayonnaise sandwiches, and I'm still hungry. I don't think I'll ever not be hungry." - via Revolver

"If the world's going to end someday, I was kind of hoping the soundtrack wouldn't suck so fucking bad. But when the melodies are electronically corrected and the humanity has been sucked clean, it makes me beg for the apocalypse." - via Taylor's 2015 book, You're Making Me Hate You: A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left

"Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong."- via Taylor's 2011 book, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

"When everything's offensive, then nothing will be." - via Taylor's 2017 book America 51: A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World

"Music is not a fucking soda. It is not a fucking insurance rate. It is not a fucking T-shirt. It is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits." - via Seven Deadly Sins

"Emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality." - via You're Making Me Hate You

"It's the chaos theory of women peeing in the shower that scares the shit out of me." - via Vice

"We are what happens when smart monkeys fuck." - via Seven Deadly Sins

"I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Your heart knows better than your head what kind of music you like." - via Gord Laws

"The wheels on the bus may go 'round and 'round, but that bus might run you over if the driver gets fired." - via Seven Deadly Sins

"Growing up and sucking it up is not the same thing. Growing up means owning your shit and if owning your shit means talking to someone, what's the problem? I think it's that tough-guy bullshit that people have bullshitted themselves into, which actually makes you weaker." - via Revolver

"Do you know why this country is starting to eat itself? It's because we handed it a knife and fork, and said, 'Chow down, Cupcake.'" - via America 51

"The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere." - via Seven Deadly Sins

Below, watch Stone Sour cover Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave" with Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan and Chris Fehn in 2013.