As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

You you think you need to forgive someone...you got it all wrong.

No matter what, love everyone because everyone is craving love.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.