Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Ivan Moody - Page 2

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.

There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.

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

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

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.

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

I don't think there will ever be a band that compares to Pantera. In my book, they are the icon metal band of all time. Their catalog speaks for itself.

My god, 'Vulgar Display Of Power' is still one of the greatest albums ever.

I just wish people understood better that I, too, am human.

I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.

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.

We've got the most loyal fans on earth and probably the most craziest fans I've seen since the Pantera days.

First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, the Metal God, was absolutely surreal.

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

No, I don't spend a lot of time in the studio, man. I truly don't. I'll be in there when I have to. I hate the containment, I can't stand the schedule crap.

When you hit the Midwest... it's just some passion - I don't know if it's in the water or what it is - but it's just embedded in these kids.

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

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

I've just always been really - we'll call it tight-pocketed.

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?'

Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, 'We're speed metal,' or 'We're thrash metal.' If it feels good at the end of the day, to me, that's metal.

We love metal.

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.

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?

For me, I grew up on old-school rock 'n' roll.

We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.

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.

I was a huge David Robinson fan.

It's so good to be alive, man.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

Pantera is one of our biggest influences, as it should be for anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll.

Vinnie Paul was a very close friend of mine - he's gone.

I don't want to tell people what to think.

Everybody has to evolve.