Ivan Moody

“I'm the biggest NBA fan you will meet in your life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Bands like Metallica never sat around and said, 'We're speed metal,' or 'We're thrash metal.' If it feels good at the end of the day, to me, that's metal.”

“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.”

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

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

“I've always been into creative writing.”

“First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, the Metal God, was absolutely surreal.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”