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.

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.