Black Sabbath wasn't like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.

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.

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Agony is not something that happens to you.To agonize is a choice.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.