mick talking about the iowa era
MICK THOMSONÂ No one knows who they are until theyâre in a different situation. People think, Oh, Iâm really grounded. Iâm 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? Everythingâs changing. Finances, fucking relationships. You can never really know who your friends are. How do you trust anybody that youâve met once youâre fucking famous? Everybody âlovesâ you now.
THOMSONÂ I was disgusted by those of us that got sucked into that world of sex and drugs. I wasnât hanging out in the dressing room and chasing skirt every night. Sorry. Not my thing. I just avoided people. On days off, youâd never see me out of my hotel room. Iâd go, OK, fuck. Now I got about 16 hours where I donât have to hear anyone elseâs fuckinâ voice. It doesnât say âHateâ in Japanese on my fuckinâ forearm for no reason. Iâd rather be alone than be around a bunch of people that I donât care about, donât care about me or are fuckinâ full of shit. I can sit home and play Xbox, play my guitar, beat off, sleep. What else do you need?
THOMSONÂ 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 fuckinâ zombie. The dude just stepped into our lives and tried to cause rifts between band members because, as long as youâve got them occupied, you can be raping them and stealing from them and theyâre not noticing because theyâre too caught up in stupid shit to see a bigger picture.
from: Slipknot on Darkness, Anger, Addiction Behind 'Iowa': "We Almost All Died"
i like the dichotomy between the last and first sentences of these paragraphs
