In a new interview with Spain's Mariskal Rock, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, who celebrates 36 years of sobriety later this week, speaks about it's challenges. Watch below.

Says Halford: "I think about it all the time. It's an addiction. When I'm watching the Phoenix Cardinals play on TV the other day, there's constantly adverts for beer and for alcohol and stuff. And I know it's there, I know it's there. And it's a temptation, so you have to have all of the mental tools ready to get you through that instance, 'cause it's all about instances, and I live one day at a time. I've lived one day at a time for 35 years now, and that's all that matters, it's the moment, you live in the moment — not yesterday, not tomorrow; it's now. And you have to be ready for when that little beer devil comes on your shoulder and goes, 'Come on, Rob. Have a little drink of beer.' 'Fuck off.' Because I don't wanna feel that way again, man. I don't want to be that person. I was miserable. I wasn't happy. I was bad to people. I don't wanna go through that again. So that's also part of my finding a balance in my day-to-day life."

Halford previously spoke with Mariskal Rock about Deep Purple and Black Sabbath and which band was more important to him while coming up in the music scene.

"They're all important to me for all of the styles and variety of music that they presented,” said Halford. "I was naturally drawn to Sabbath because of the heaviness. If you put Purple on and then you put Sabbath on, or Sabbath on then Purple, they're both really strong, powerful bands, depending on which album you're listening to. Purple is hard rock, for me it’s not metal, they might kill me for saying that, but I’m sorry. Sabbath is exclusively metal, although Tony always says in those conversations between musicians that Sabbath his not metal; I don’t know what’s going on, that’s the world we live in.”

(Photo - Mark Gromen)