All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

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.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

Small things become small folks.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.