Rob Halford Quotes

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

I was always apologizing for yesterday's behavior and I got tired of it. I feel it's good being straight. As I did when I first got high. It's a high to be straight because I was getting loaded every day.

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.