Quotes from Ivan Moody

There's a sense of family in Colorado; there's such a pride factor there.

My job consists of getting on stage and tearing my chest open and letting people into parts of my life that I would prefer to keep to myself. But I also think that's what connects me with a lot of our fans.

I'm the biggest NBA fan you will meet in your life.

I'm a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.

Everyone who knows me or has heard rumors or stories or whatever knows that I have a tendency to lose it every now and then. I've never been shy about it either.

The Ghost Machine album was actually written when I was going through spiritual depression, as that was written right after Motograter and just prior to Five Finger Death Punch.

We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.

Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.

My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.

When somebody's telling you you're godly and you saved their life, and this and that and the other, I'm going, 'Well, who's saving mine?'

Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

I'm a huge Ray Lewis fan and Ravens fan in general.

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.

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 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.

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.

Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.

Rob Halford is the person that I called a lot of the time when I was in recovery.

There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused to live my life the way certain members of my family had.

Media, politics, women, family, friends, good relationships, bad relationships, all inspire me.

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.

My kids are everything to me and I never got to see 'em - I missed tons of moments and years.

I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will the shirt be in Hot Topic?