David Draiman

To be perfectly honest with you, I think that The Darkness is a joke, and that's, unfortunately, exactly what the world wants. ”

You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road. ”

It used to be that, whenever I walked around without my old piercings, that I was very rarely recognized - it wasn't a common thing; I could be somewhat incognito. ”

There's still anti-Semitism everywhere, and unfortunately, what has happened with our people no longer being the underdogs in this region, peoples' perception of Israel has changed dramatically. ”

I used to have, and I still do have, really bad acid reflux. I had a surgical procedure done... that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned away. ”

I do think about and do occasionally take my wife and son out with me on tour. It's difficult. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

The God's honest truth is that, being the singer, my body's my instrument. ”