Explore Quotes by Rob Halford

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't have any Internet and didn't have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

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

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

The fact that there are now gay men and women who can openly serve their country is a wonderful thing.

I love heavy-metal music more than anything in the world, but I'm equally drawn to Michael Buble or Michael Feinstein.

It doesn't matter how many records you've made; there's always a new experience you can get with a new producer.

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.

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.

Oh, I've never gone off into that 'the room's not the right temperature, take this tea back' stuff. I still scrub my own toilet and vacuum the carpet, and I have to be able to push my trolley around Morrisons and do my shopping.

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.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I think I've improved in a lot of ways because of being able to stay clean and sober.

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual. That's not the way the world should work.

When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.

'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.

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.

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

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

Just the basic principles of what makes America work for me are very strong in my heart. It's like no other nation in the world.

The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this metal flag, if you will - this beacon of hope that, no matter what you may be going through in life, there's always a sense of overcoming difficulties, a sense of winning, a sense of coming out on top.

We're all people. We all need to just try and find a way to love each other and accept each other and try and make the world a better place.