For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila

The plan is to start performing smaller venues and work my way up from there, this anxiety isn't going to get the better of me.

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.