Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.
— Ivan Moody
You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.
I use throat sprays on stage, but most of the throat sprays I was using had alcohol or other carcinogens in them, stuff I wanted to keep away from myself. So I started making a recipe for my own throat spray that was more of a natural approach to everything.
I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.
I just didn't want my legacy to be that of a few others that I don't even have to name, where I was controlled by a substance, or a liquid for that matter. My life is too precious to me.
When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day.
I've got nice cars.
We are absolutely going to do an acoustic tour. We are, sincerely.
One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.
You know, I mean, we're all made to wear these faces, you know, of what we think society would want.
I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!
I'm a huge Ray Lewis fan and Ravens fan in general.
We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.
Something I will point out to everybody in the world, and I am not afraid to say it: these rap guys about as hard as soft butter. That's all there is to it.
There were millions of people who could've given up on me at any given moment, and they didn't, and so that, to me, it's the world and more.
I just try to keep myself positive and really active.
We've toured with so many bands, and we've noticed that there are a few of them... Metallica, Rammstein, Tool - those aren't bands, those are events.
It's taken a lot for me to understand that the position I'm in is meant to benefit other people.
My own bandmembers wouldn't return my calls and I lost multiple tour managers, crew members. I can't tell you how many friends stopped talking to me.
The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.
Oh my God - if you wanna look up to somebody in this industry, start with Korn. That's my opinion.
My kids are everything to me and I never got to see 'em - I missed tons of moments and years.
Hard rock I got into around twelve or thirteen. My uncle introduced me to Scorpions, Great White and everything rock. From there, I expanded out, and I listened to Nuclear Assault, Exodus, Megadeth, King Diamond and Misfits, of course.
I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when I was sixteen years old.
I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.
I've always been in basketball. If you need a PG I'm your man.
I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.
We are a people's band.
I always make fun of Kanye West.
My sobriety is a huge deal.
You know, we love what we do, man, and I don't want to be one of those bands that we write an album, tour for two years and then take a year and a half off.
When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.
It hurts, man. When I watch people I love so much just deteriorate in front of me and I can't do anything about it.
It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.
The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'
Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.
My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac and the Moody Blues.
For me, I feed off everything, from bad politics to religion to relationships - I mean, just life in general. And, yeah, I'm not necessarily happy with the state of things. And I think that I get to use music as a release.
Well, for me, I was always attracted to frontmen - or artists in general - that were really passionate about what they did.
I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.
Our fans understand us because of who we are.
I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.
I've never done what anybody told me to.
If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.
