Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.
Ivan Moody
Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.
When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.
Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.
If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.
My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.
Myself, I usually wait until I get home to write. While we're touring, I try to stay as focused as possible on the moment at hand because I feel like I'll be robbing the fans if I don't.
There's a sense of family in Colorado; there's such a pride factor there.
We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.
I just try to keep myself positive and really active.
Yeah, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek. You know, Five Finger Death Punch doing 'Mama Said Knock You Out.' It was just really funny for us.
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.
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.
I'm a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.
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.
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.
Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.
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 meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.
The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.
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.
Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.
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.
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.
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.
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 was a huge David Robinson fan.
I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.
My kids are everything to me and I never got to see 'em - I missed tons of moments and years.
Everything that I sing about, especially songs like 'Far From Home' and 'The Bleeding,' I really put 110 percent of myself into it, so it's difficult.
I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.
You know, I mean, we're all made to wear these faces, you know, of what we think society would want.
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.
Oh my God - if you wanna look up to somebody in this industry, start with Korn. That's my opinion.
You get to a point where you start realizing that what you've done is amazing and you're proud of it, but there's so much more to accomplish. So many projects get to a certain level and they become content, and that's all that they ever expected or wanted.
I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.
Rob Halford is the person that I called a lot of the time when I was in recovery.
We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can do live passionately.
I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!
My god, 'Vulgar Display Of Power' is still one of the greatest albums ever.
We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.
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.
I always make fun of Kanye West.
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.
I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of... I don't want to use the words 'self sacrifice,' but that's what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.
It's taken a lot for me to understand that the position I'm in is meant to benefit other people.
I've never done what anybody told me to.
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.
Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.
