My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.
We've got the most loyal fans on earth and probably the most craziest fans I've seen since the Pantera days.
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.
We love metal.
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.
There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.
Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.
Everybody has to evolve.
There were patterns in my family that had to be broken, and I refused to live my life the way certain members of my family had.
We absolutely thrive on the live setting. Even when we're in the studio, we make sure the songs we create are something we can do live passionately.
Rob Halford is the person that I called a lot of the time when I was in recovery.
I was a huge David Robinson fan.
I was raised in Denver with the Nuggets.
I'm the biggest NBA fan you will meet in your life.
I'm a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.
