A biography for Ivan Moodyhasn’t been written yet.
“I've never done what anybody told me to.”
“The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.”
“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.”
“I truly love the Slipknot guys.”
“I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.”
“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.”
“I don't want to tell people what to think.”
“I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!”
“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.”
“Media, politics, women, family, friends, good relationships, bad relationships, all inspire me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've never really been a social butterfly, so to speak.”
“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.”
“I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.”
“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.”
“I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.”
“Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.”
“I was a huge David Robinson fan.”