| Hit Parader: | Why has Slipknot touched the pulse of so many people so quickly? |
| Pual Gray: | Obviously, something was not happening in music at the time we debuted. |
| Mick Thomson: | I am often asked if there is something magical about where we are from. Who gives a damn about where were from? |
| HP: | It is surprising that a band whose members are hidden behind masks and remain anonymous to fans can create such a dedicated following. |
| PG: | Were not out there kicking it at the Grammy Awards. |
| MT: | And we don't have to worry about what we're wearing. |
| HP: | Has the band already accumulated a lot of material for its second album? |
| MT: | It's going to smoke. We had tons of material to chose from for our first record. So in addition to older material that we are reworking, we have new stuff. When working on our first record, we all wrote our own list of songs we thought should be on the album. It was democratic. There were a lot of good songs that didn't make it, songs that will eventually resurface. And since there are nine guys in this band, we obviously have lots of ideas to work with. |
| HP: | How does it feel to have the fastest selling record in the history of Roadrunner Records and to be the first band on its roster with a platinum record? |
| PG: | It is strange. I don't know a million kids. I don't know 50 people. It is strange that there are so many people into the music that we worked on in our little basements in the cold-ass state of Iowa. |
| MT: | I don't want to get weird about our sucess. I don't want to think too much of myself. I really try to keep my blinders on and keep things in perspective. But every once in a while someone will bring it up and I'll say to myself "That's alot of people." |
| PG: | It blows my mind. |
| HP: | Slipknot's members are reckless on stage. Some members have recieved stitches after performences, while others regularly leap from balconies during shows. It is comparable to professional wrestling. |
| MT: | It would be easy for people to say it was contrived. Half the time, I don't know what is taking place on stage. I have to watch videotapes, We never sit down before a show and decided that at a certain point Sid is going to squirt lighter fluid on his pants and set himself on fire. He's done that a couple of times, much to my surprise. Once, he even set Shawn's leg on fire. Chris's drums were on fire one night and I thought it was just a light that had been knocked over until my side started to get real hot. |