Here are some quotes from the new issue of MetalHammer magazine.

Des Moines (Slipknot's home town) had a series of floods recently. Did they affect the band at all?
Corey: "Not really. I spent a couple days running around saving my friends. Everybody I knew with the exception of just a couple of people live on the flood plain, so I was just going out and helping people get the FUCK out of there. I had a house full of people for a week!"

How do you guys balance all the side projects with Slipknot?
Joey: "It's fucking simple. SLIPKNOT comes first!"

What was the theme for All Hope Is Gone?
Corey: "It's not blatantly political or a social album, and its not a blatantly angry album. I think the overwhelming theme, for me, is that none of us are the same, none of us are different. We may change as people, but if we use the same energy to try and solve different problems, nothing is going to get accomplished. And that's something that i think is lost on a lot of people"

Is Slipknot like Kiss, where you could lose a member and just find somebody else to wear his mask?
Clown: "No. If I left this band, we'd be done. If Joey left this band, we'd be done. All of us, if any of the guys leave.... We are the NINE and there is NO ONE else!"

Is Slipknot Meant to last forever, or do you have to write the end of this story?
Clown: "You nailed it man, I am in more pain than anyone could possibly ever know. I have to find a way to finish this!"

Joey: "I don't think its out last record at all, but there's something seriously going on with this record, that's for sure. Its like Friday the 13th Part IV: the final chapter... Its a climax!"