Rob Halford

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

It's fun for musicians to step into each other's world. It's like different football teams - it's the same game but a different play.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

You've got to be able to compromise in a band; otherwise, somebody's more important than the next guy, and that's never been the case in Priest.

I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.

I've often talked about metal being the underdog in rock n' roll music.