Rob Halford Quotes

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world. We see it when we're on tour.

We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

I love 'Dogman' by King's X and Living Colour's 'Stain.'

Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

I love Queen. Not all of it. Some of it, I can't get into. But "Don't Stop Me Now" is a pretty hilarious song. It's a good pick-me-up in the car.

There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

The biggest production show I went to with my step-dad and my mom was Adam Ant when I was probably eleven.

'Paul's Boutique' was a bust, right? That was a bummer. We didn't pause on it for a long time - we didn't go through therapy - but it was weird. And because it was a bust, we didn't go on tour.

You obviously learn each time you go on tour, with each concert, with each song, from all your mistakes. But everything we did was authentic.

Slayer is one of my favorite bands of all time, and to be on a tour with them is absolutely a dream come true.

To perform live would be amazing; that's a huge thing to undertake.

I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'

I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.

My first records were KISS's 'Love Gun,' Twisted Sister's 'Stay Hungry,' and Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil.' That had immense influence on me.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

Doing a concert, I look at a room full of different people, and I see you've got Muslims, you've got Jews, you've got Christians, you've got gays, you've got straights, you've got blacks, you've got whites. I think, 'How can I unite these people through song?'

I didn't want the band to end, it was as simple as that.