I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

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.

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.

The world made me cold. You made me water. One day we'll be clouds.

I am obsessed with books.I am a book collector.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.