Michael Shawn Crahan (Clown)

And, you know, then all the worst things from there.

I went in and I thought I was going to get to see my friend.

This guy took me in a stairway and I realized he was questioning me.

and i was crying and i got up and i go you're questioning me and he goes son listen to me we don't know how your friend passed you could be a drug dealer you could be trying to go in there erase some evidence i'm like you're right i'm out of here i'm not talking to you anymore yeah but thank you i hope you know this all works out so what a cliche in rock and roll too you know like

We did the album with you, Subliminal Verses.

And then the next album was All Hope Is Gone.

And I did a photo shoot in an abandoned school and above the doorway, it said All Hope Is Gone.

I took a picture with my gun and it was just my way of the world.

Just letting everybody know that on my side show,

I'm paranoid by myself, only child, freaked out, leave me alone.

I didn't make it through school.

That's why I live here.

And it says all hope is gone.

And then I saw my pictures and I told Paul Brown, the photographer, I go, hey, man, go back to the school and take the ego heads.

I made these paper mache heads of our faces for death masks that we used for our album for Vermillion.

Right.

we would wear death masks.

So I made these giant death masks.

I called them ego heads because when we're not together, we think highly of ourselves and we just get out.

So I wanted to get together and light those fuckers on fire.