Corey Taylor On Why Craig Jones Doesn't Speak (Transcription)


c. 2011

COREY: One more? Okay, one more question. You...
MAN: Why doesn't Craig ever talk?
(Laughter from audience)
MAN: I've been waiting years to ask that...
COREY: Seriously, or...
MAN: No. Seriously.
COREY: For real? Or as a joke?
MAN: No, no, no...really like...even in Voliminal, they ask him like "How many bodies you have in your backyard", and he doesn't even say anything
COREY: Several. There are several, uh, joke answers I can give you. One of which is, he's an Android. (Laughter) Another of which is that secretly he's a serial killer (Laughter). Which we all call him. We're just like, "You're just a killer, dude." And he just goes...(does a silent nodding/sniff impression)...and he doesn't say a damn word. He's...the honest answer...is that that's just the way he us. He's never...I mean, I'm talking about a dude who I knew, before Slipknot was even a band. You know, we used to go to Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the day, and he would come out...he wasn't really a part of the crowd that I ran with, but he knew people that I was friends with, and he would just show up, and he'd sit. He just kind of sit a table, and just (does the same nodding/sniff impression while he looks around)..and I would be like, you know, (and it was like two years before we had an actual conversation), I'm talking about a cat I sat at the same table with him. And I would just look over, and I'd be like, "You want to get a ride?" And he'd (same impression)
(Laughter from audience)
COREY (cont): I can't even remember if I ever just looked at him and said, "Do you say anything?" It was just, you...you just knew he wasn't going to say a damn thing.
WOMAN: Kind of like Jay and Silent Bob? 
COREY: Basically, yeah. But when he did talk, it was like it scared the hell out of you. Like he'd just pipe up and be like, "That was a hell of..." (Reacts in surprise)…"Jesus Christ! Really? I didn't even know you were there!" That's just the way he is, man. You know, he's a guy that when he says something, you listen basically, you know. Cuz he doesn't say anything. And uh, you know, there's a reason uh, you know, we call him "The Killer", cuz you never known when it's going to come, so you're just (looks behind him) God, I can just feel his presence. What the hell's going on?
MAN: Like Michael Myers? 
COREY: Basically, yeah. The shape. Very much so, but without the mask. He'll just come up behind you, and he's strangely, strangely strong, okay? He's deceptively strong, okay? He'll put you in a headlock, and you weren't prepared for it, and you can't get out. You're like, (muffled voice), "Get off me, Craig! I'm trying to get on a plane!"
(LAUGHTER)
COREY (CONT): That's true. It'd be in right in the middle of the airport, and he'll just take your hat and throw it, and then put me in one of these, and I'm like, "I'm going to kick you right in the gooch, dude. Get off me." So, yeah, that's...there's no real reason that he doesn't talk. He just doesn't. And if you asked him, he'd go (Impression again with a shrug), and that would be it, and then he'd move on his way. 


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