Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Ivan Moody

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.

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 learned what it was like to not battle myself anymore, which is really difficult to admit, because at the end of the day - and I'm sure anyone can agree with this - you're your own worst enemy.

I've always been in basketball. If you need a PG I'm your man.

I've never done what anybody told me to.

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.

Well, for me, I was always attracted to frontmen - or artists in general - that were really passionate about what they did.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our fans understand us because of who we are.

Oh my God - if you wanna look up to somebody in this industry, start with Korn. That's my opinion.

I'm taking care of my mother; I set her up.

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.

My sobriety is a huge deal.

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.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

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.

If you dwell on yesterday, man, you're never gonna see tomorrow clearly.

You know, I mean, we're all made to wear these faces, you know, of what we think society would want.

I truly love the Slipknot guys.

I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.

It's taken a lot for me to understand that the position I'm in is meant to benefit other people.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I've always been into creative writing.

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

The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.

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

We are a people's band.

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.

One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.

We are absolutely going to do an acoustic tour. We are, sincerely.

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.

I've got nice cars.

I get a new CD, and it takes me a month just to get into the entire thing, where I start getting acclimated to it, so to speak.

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

Playing for the troops is always an honor and seriously humbling.

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.

When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.

I just try to keep myself positive and really active.

I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.

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.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

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.

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 want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.

Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.

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.

I've got beautiful children.

I always make fun of Kanye West.

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.