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.

I'm still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.

I just wanted to do the things that all normal teenagers wanted to do. So I did become quite rebellious.

The fans who know us, and me in particular, know the type of people we are. I like the finer things. We've gone through our McDonald's and Burger King phase.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

Look, it makes sense to be able to take part of what you've earned in this life and have it grow. And I hope that other musicians out there that do have their moments of profit and of success are wise enough not to squander those profits and that success.

All I can ever hope to be to my son is someone who's supportive, someone who listens and understands and points out possible other ways of thinking, ways of feeling, ways of approaching things, suggests rather than demands.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

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.

'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'

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

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

I attended five different Jewish day schools as a teenager. I mean, I was trained as a hazan!

The Device experience was amazing. I enjoyed working with everyone that I was blessed with the opportunity to work with, and you learn so much going outside of your normal world and outside your box, so to speak.

I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.

I've been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

Other music that 'Ride The Lightning' led me to discover was to start really kind of sinking my teeth into some of the thrash of the era that I literally had no exposure to - whether it was Slayer, whether it was Testament, whether it was Megadeth. It was the opening of a doorway, for me, to a whole new palette of music.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I can't deny the impact of, obviously, becoming a father and having my son come into this world, and even becoming a husband. The irony is that, when people think that in certain ways it softens you, in many ways, I'm more defensive and more on guard and more frightened and more angry at everything in this world now that I have them to worry about.

There's everybody in the world who is always trying, time and time again, to proclaim the death of rock, or hard rock and heavy metal. Not if I have anything to do with it, not if we have anything to do with it.

I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that historically has had issues with the African-American people, and them having issues vice-versa, is a miraculous thing.

'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who create it.

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's as possible as it can be.