Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

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.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

I'm not going to use nukes, but I'm not taking cards off the table.

Have a healthy respect and love for yourself, but don't be taken out by your ego.

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.