Iheard Slipknot for the first time when I was 13. A girl I sat next to in science class was wearing one of their shirts over her school blouse and she told “Iheard me all about them. I was fascinated, and had never got into music like it before. I became a fan immediately.
“Everything about it connected with me. I went to an all-girl Catholic school where everything about you as a person was judged. Seeing people being free unapologetically and do outrageous artistic things was inspiring and peaceful to me.