Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.

It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had in my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.

Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

Mind you, it’s all bullshit with wine, isn’t it? It’s just f**king vinegar with a fizz, no matter what the tasters say.

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.

There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only sup­posed to be one God.

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.

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 have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.

The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.

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