So I went home, I rolled up a bill, started snorting some drugs, and I prayed on drugs. I was like 'Lord, if You're real like that guy said, please take these drugs from me. Make them go away. Reveal Yourself to me and all that.' I think in a week or two, I got the urge to throw away all my drugs with the help of a friend. I was done.
So He showed me He was real, and I was like 'ok, now You're real. Now what? What do You want me to do? Cool. This is awesome. Now what?' And that's when I left Korn.
Do you feel your time with Korn has helped you in any way, and that you can use some of that as you pursue a more Christian lifestyle?
Welch: Has the time with Korn helped me? Yeah. I don't regret the things. Being in Korn, I believe it was all for a purpose. You know, God turns around everything for the good.
But I could see Him reaching out to me earlier on too, because it seems right when I went into Korn, all these things - you'll see them in the book - all these things that were just not cool. It was like bad luck. It went along with the fame.
It was like me and my ex-girlfriend had a baby, and we gave her up for adoption. I didn't know how bad it was going to rip my heart out until it happened. And it was like right when Korn formed, right when it was going on tour that happened. I feel that God was reaching out to me saying 'you know, that's not really where I want you'. And He was trying to show me, but I just kept walking. You know you get those traumas out and you just keep walking and that's what I did until I couldn't understand anymore.
I read somewhere that you grew up in a Christian household. Do you think that was a big part in helping you find your faith?
Welch: [Actually,] I didn't grow up in a Christian household. Yeah, I went to church, an Episcopalian church, probably like 10 times, and I got baptised on my forehead. And I went to Sunday school for like a summer, but that was it. My parents didn't talk about God. There was no God. We just had a family that worked hard. You know, they tried to be good parents, and that was it.
What happened was, when I was in junior high, I was into watching all these horror movies and metal music. I was hanging out with these kids that weren't really nice to me. They were like bullies. And I met this one Christian family at the end of my eighth grade year, and they just told me about Jesus the whole summer.
