Rob Halford

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.

If you look at the history of the LGBTQ community, from my perspective growing up as I did in the U.K. in the '50s, there was just terrible, terrible discrimination, you know? It was extremely difficult to live your life as you should have been allowed to do.

To have Judas Priest together? It's a real adventure, and we always feel excited when it's time to create a new record.

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.

The battle goes on for me; as a gay man, I shall not be happy until I see equality across the board.

It's your human right to push back against something you disagree with. You do that by voting for that guy instead of that guy, or that lady instead of that lady.

There's always someone that's dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You've gotta have perspective.

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.

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.

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.

We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of what's going on around us in the world.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.