Did you manage to keep your New Year's Resolution?

Every December 31st we all come up with ways to improve our lives over the next 12 months. However the resolve to get fit, stop biting our nails and eat healthier usually falls by the wayside come January 2.

One star who stuck to his 2010 New Year's Resolution is Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor.

"I quit drinking this year," he tells Kerrang!. "I've quit in the past, but this year it's more for me than it was the first time. There's a permanence to this one. I looked at shit and asked myself, 'What am I holding on to? Am I drinking just because I can, or because it's a celebration, or is it because I'm scared to death of my own mortality?'. I couldn't come up with a good answer for any of those questions, so I decided to call it a day. Having done that, it's better for my marriage, it's better for my health, it's better for being on the road."

Now that he's teetotal, how will Taylor be celebrating come midnight?

"I'll drinking a Coke," he says. "But it won't be a Diet Coke, it'll be a real Coke. And I'll be sure to plant a kiss on my wife, too!"


Posted by Dan at 10:05AM | December 31, 2010

corey ur my fucking idol dude, i hang on everything you say but not this? How can u say, and i quote. ' if i drunk then it aint christmas'

Posted by rob bridge | December 31, 2010 11:17 AM | Reply to this

Wasn't he pissed at the kerrang awards? Don't get me wrong it's all good him quitting the booze but I swear he was; if not then he was technically drinking therefore going against his resolution? Meh, still got a lot of love for this man.

Posted by cheepers | December 31, 2010 11:22 AM | Reply to this

In response to Rob Bridge, that was just a song. A rather amusing one. I wouldn't take anything in that song too seriously to be honest.

Posted by Tasha | December 31, 2010 12:04 PM | Reply to this

and the song was written four years ago!!!!! and i think he was drinking coke at the k! awards, i mean, he seemed more sober that bullet for my valentine!

Posted by Essie | December 31, 2010 12:14 PM | Reply to this

Either way Corey drinking or not it doesnt change the fact that you are a fucking legend! all the best for the New Year dude and carry on being AWESOME!!!!

Posted by Ben Pointon | December 31, 2010 12:29 PM | Reply to this

As a partial direction to Essie - Matt Tuck hasn't Smoked in over 2 years - so all I can say is well done to Corey for Ditching drink and Matt keep it Up!

Posted by Lauren Brender | December 31, 2010 4:43 PM | Reply to this

People banging on about him saying If I ain't drunk then it ain't christmas' should probably know that he wrote that song years ago, before he ever quit drinking. Just FYI.

Posted by Elliott Reagan | December 31, 2010 4:44 PM | Reply to this

People banging on about him saying If I ain't drunk then it ain't christmas' should probably know that he wrote that song years ago, before he ever quit drinking. Just FYI.

Posted by Elliott Reagan | December 31, 2010 4:45 PM | Reply to this

Not to mention his X-mas song was written from the perspective of a crotchety drunk guy who hates the holiday and thus gets wasted, which Corey has stated is not his own personal opinion (he loves Christmas), so it's very much a "character song" so to speak :D

Posted by Sara | December 31, 2010 4:51 PM | Reply to this

This article isn't about his X-mas song...

Posted by Alex | January 1, 2011 12:26 PM | Reply to this

The song isn't about himself, its aimed at people he knows who hate christmas and its a kind of a joke at their expense

Posted by johnny | January 1, 2011 5:32 PM | Reply to this

Fair play quitting alcohol... but kerrang, do your research again, that doesn't make him teetotal. I fail to see how paul gray was the only one doing drugs in the band... we need to stop putting rockstars on pedestals...because KERRANG! just make money out of it when they die. Fuckers.

Posted by Matt fern | January 3, 2011 10:46 AM | Reply to this

I agree with Rob Bridge; how can you say if I ain't drunk then it ain't Christmas..? Lol. I don't drink either, we rule.

Corey, you look just like my dad lol. I think you're amazing! Good luck for the future and don't drink! Alcohol that is. =P

Posted by spud | January 3, 2011 11:06 AM | Reply to this

fabulosae rarins mi iceco te aless adados coitamo. elinaram te urtizavam ssatista nos tamos o arias rento moroner bien.

Posted by Tavla Backgammon | October 25, 2011 1:04 AM | Reply to this
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