You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Every day you try to get better.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.

I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.