A biography for Ivan Moodyhasn’t been written yet.
“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?”
“I just wish people understood better that I, too, am human.”
“My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.”
“Our fans understand us because of who we are.”
“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 go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.”
“I've got beautiful children.”
“One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.”
“It's taken a lot for me to understand that the position I'm in is meant to benefit other people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some days I work out, some days I walk around the city. I don't know... It just depends on the mood, really.”
“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've got nice cars.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Rob Halford is the person that I called a lot of the time when I was in recovery.”
“I've always liked underdogs who started out not so iconic but then really took off.”
“Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.”