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.
