Quotes from Rob Halford

I pray quite a bit, actually. And even if you don't believe in prayer, just have a go. Pray for a good day, or just pray for your friend, or whatever it might be. And it's amazing, man, 'cause it absolutely works. I guarantee, it genuinely does work.

I didn't pass my driving test till I was 38!

I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

The moment I came out as a gay man, I never really thought of the consequences. Of course, the proverbial happened: it hits the newswires, and it's this big, big thing.

The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we're always protecting other people: 'I can't do this, because it's gonna hurt so-and-so.' We're trying to live the lives of other people, and that's the worst thing you can do.

I kind of have to bite my tongue sometimes with my lyrics.

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

This overpowering relief of love conquering any kind of difficulty and hardship in life - that love is forever, even with people that we lost in the physical world.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.

'Firepower' is the eighteenth full-length studio album for Judas Priest. That's a lot of metal songs over the decades, and the writing process is always the same, really.

It's best to keep things as free and open as you can. It's good to have a template, but then you go back and dissect it and see where you can make improvements. That's pretty much been the case with every Priest song that's ever been written.

I think that the fact of the matter is that metal isn't really part of the big picture of the gay, lesbian, transgender music scene. But it's certainly there. There's gay metalheads all over the world.

We can either rip your face up with 'Painkiller,' or we can play this beautiful thing called 'Last Rose of Summer' from 'Sin After Sin.' And people love us for that because they don't really know what to expect.

I'm drawn to singers who have something different to say vocally, and Adele would be in there.

Life is a beautiful thing, but a lot of it, it kind of replicates itself.

The thing about rock & roll, and the black leather biker jacket - it automatically creates an idea about what that person might be about, about their musical taste or their attitude.

Treating one bunch of people this way, and treating this bunch that way. You can't do that. You have to give everybody the same rights.

I just love to sing. It makes me feel great, so I'm gonna keep going.

You've gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.