Ivan Moody

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 always make fun of Kanye West.

I've never done what anybody told me to.

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.

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

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

It's so good to be alive, man.