When you record and tour year after year without a break, it starts to feel like you're on an assembly line.

The world wants rock bands to be idiots.

I in no way, shape, or form envision myself as the modern-day Ozzy Osbourne - nobody can.

'In Another Time' talks about our addiction to technology.

I come from a classical background.

The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are the prime example of a metal band.

Oh, I'm going to raise him on Black Sabbath and Metallica and football and MMA and all things that should matter for a young boy, and discipline and strength and honor and courage and everything that I would hope to instill within my son.

I'll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chain records, and hearing that wonderful, beautiful darkness. And the rhythmic intensity, that's what attracted me more than anything else.

There'd be no merit to replicating something, to repeating something. As artists and as musicians, you wanna continue to go in different directions and develop.

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.

'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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

'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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 hate all politicians equally.

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

The Internet, sadly, has become a preying ground for trolls and just predators. And when you're in the position that I'm in, and you have a wife and a child who had just come into this world not too long ago, you start wondering whether or not that continued interaction and some of the threats and some of the nonsense are worth it.

The level of study that I was at, I was probably only about two or three years away from being ordained as a rabbi, so I really needed to figure out in my head where I wanted to go with things. And I just couldn't do it habitually anymore.

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

I'm incredibly defiant against neo-Nazis and skinheads.

'Savior Of Nothing' calls out the would-be social justice warriors of the world who become so enveloped in fighting so passionately that they become exactly what they're trying to correct. They preach acceptance so much they become unaccepting.

One of the degrees I have is in business, and I was a healthcare administrator that ran a 365-bed skilled nursing facility for years and generated several million dollars a year profit for them. So I have a background in business.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

I'm done. Done with social media. Done.

There's nothing that can lock a memory in your mind more distinctly than with a piece of music. It's so easy to remember something so vividly and so perfectly when you score it to something.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

People make their own destinies.

I'm a huge Kiss fan.

Many people have eclectic tastes. Many people like to listen to all kinds of different music. I mean, I do; I'll listen to many different styles inside a day, a week, a month, a year. It doesn't matter.

I'm a fan of Genesis prior to Phil Collins. I don't really like Phil.