Slipknot And Flicks

Slipknot's Corey Taylor has revealed that he wrote the lyrics to the band's first record in the bathroom of a porn shop where he once worked. "I would always have my notebook and pen, and for some reason every time I'd go to the bathroom I'd start writing something great," he said.

The first lyric that made an impression on me: "One line that comes to me right out the gate is Jim Morrison on the Doors' Five to One. That song was so dark for its time: 'No one here gets out alive.' For a kid growing up with no money, no friends, to hear something like that you're like, 'Oh, dude, I know exactly how that feels'. I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in Smells Like Teen Spirit, 'Here we are now/Entertain us' – the irony, the antagonism, that's always stuck with me."