Too much down time makes us miss home.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.

I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

Back in 1994 there was no Judas Priest.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.

Sachin Tendulkar is, in my time, the best player without doubt

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.

When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.