Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.

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

Anyone in recovery knows that isolation is the biggest enemy.

When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.

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.

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.

I just try to keep myself positive and really active.

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

Our fans understand us because of who we are.

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

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

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.

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.

Myself, I usually wait until I get home to write. While we're touring, I try to stay as focused as possible on the moment at hand because I feel like I'll be robbing the fans if I don't.

I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when I was sixteen years old.

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.

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

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.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

I've got nice cars.

I've never done what anybody told me to.

Oh my God - if you wanna look up to somebody in this industry, start with Korn. That's my opinion.

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

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.

You go check out someone like Rammstein, man, and it changes your life.

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

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

We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.

I'm taking care of my mother; I set her up.

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.

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.

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.

My sobriety is a huge deal.

I don't know where these rap guys get off trying to act so hard.

We are a people's band.

I meet these rock guys, these metal guys, and we are very real.

I'm a huge Ray Lewis fan and Ravens fan in general.

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

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

One of my first concerts ever was seeing Jethro Tull at Fiddler's Green, when I was twelve.

My father and mother listened to oldies, from be-bop and swing music to - I hate to admit it, but - Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac and the Moody Blues.

We are absolutely going to do an acoustic tour. We are, sincerely.

My kids are everything to me and I never got to see 'em - I missed tons of moments and years.

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day.

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

The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.

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.

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.