What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.

Usually it's like this: I sit down and drink with the idea of clarifying just where I am going with my life, and then, after a while, I am unable even to stand on my feet

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

Prepare yourself to be employable.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

Noise makes no good, good makes no noise.