Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.