David Draiman

“People make their own destinies.”

“Many people have eclectic tastes. Many people like to listen to all kinds of different music. I mean, I do; I'll listen to many different styles inside a day, a week, a month, a year. It doesn't matter.”

“The Internet, sadly, has become a preying ground for trolls and just predators. And when you're in the position that I'm in, and you have a wife and a child who had just come into this world not too long ago, you start wondering whether or not that continued interaction and some of the threats and some of the nonsense are worth it.”

“The way I sing is extremely physical, and it was causing acid from my stomach to wash up to my vocal cords and burn them.”

“I have a real estate development company. I have investments in all sorts of things, and I dabble all over the place.”

“I'm incredibly defiant against neo-Nazis and skinheads.”

“There are definitely confines within the style of Disturbed that we needed to stay true to, but we've always pushed that envelope. We always continued to develop with each successive record.”

“There's nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It's so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.”

“To be perfectly honest with you, I think that The Darkness is a joke, and that's, unfortunately, exactly what the world wants.”

“'Fade To Black' - just this amazing construct: a song that defied the definition of what Metallica was perceived to be at the time.”

“What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.”

“I would have no problem with a woman as president. I have a problem with Hillary Clinton as president. I think the right woman could be great. She's not the right woman. She's not the right anything. She's just a liar.”

“I'm a huge Kiss fan.”

“I like the original 'Halloween.'”

“Even though there is obviously a marked stylistic difference between the majority of our catalog and a cover like 'The Sound Of Silence,' it certainly isn't the first time we've done an acoustic track.”

“I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done... that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away.”

“I support the troops with every fiber of my being. I don't support them having their lives wasted.”

“What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.”

“Social media has become a high school playground where the challenge is what idiot can come up with the best insult, and do you end up congratulating them for it?”

“Every time we put out a piece of art, it continues to define who we are. What could possibly be more important than that and require more of your focus and your time and your energy.”