When you have the thrill and the pleasure to do something that means so much, you'll do whatever you've gotta do to get to that next gig and play that next song.
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.
I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.
You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.
Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.
Oh God, don't let me go on Amazon Prime at one in the morning 'cause I always buy something I don't need.
If you go to the gym every day, it's not really good. Your muscles get fatigued. Your vocal cords are muscles - they get burned out, they get tired, so you've got to give them the chance to recover and repair during the night.
When you make that choice of stepping out and facing the issue of disclosure, you do create this kind of self-imposed negative fear. It's unfortunate it still happens today. 'Do I step out and say I'm a gay guy?' But you have got to do it and live your life on your terms and no one else's terms.
'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.
I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.
When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.
You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.
That's the life, really, isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.
We've always had this fantastic relationship with America.
I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.
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.
As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.
I just love to sing. It makes me feel great, so I'm gonna keep going.
