Rob Halford talks about not being tired of singing “Breaking The Law”

Judas Priest completes 50 years on the road and since 1980, when the classic album British Steel was released Rob Halford has to sing the anthem “Breaking the Law” in every show. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone the singer explained why he doesn’t get tired of performing the tune over and over.

Rob Halford said about singing “Breaking The Law” over and over again:

It’s fresh every night that you play it. That given moment in time, it’s new, it’s fresh, it’s different. It’s never exactly, identically the same, and that’s just the way it is.

“I think what’s important with these kinds of songs is, you don’t put them on autopilot. You don’t go through the motions. It has to be coming from a real, sincere place of performance.

“It’s not like, ‘Oh, shit. We’ve got to do it again for the fucking 4,000th time.’ You never feel that way. You look forward to it. I still look forward to doing ‘Breaking the Law,’ ‘Living After Midnight,’ ‘Electric Eye.'”

In the same interview he talked about the struggle of being sober:

“Oh, every day is a fucking struggle. It’s just unbelievable. But what sobriety gives you is just this incredible strength that is in all of us.

“All of us are strong people; sometimes you have to go to the bottom of the shit pit, as I call it, to realize that you have tremendous strength and resilience to survive. In terms of sobriety and learning to live as a sober person, you have to dig deep for the strength to do it, because you can lose it.

“It’s incredibly fragile. Strength is a funny thing – because it can break at any moment. It’s finding something in yourself that you can only find by going to the darkest of places.”