Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Every day you try to get better.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

The real truth lies below the surface.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

One enemy is too many a hundred friends too few.

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend