I am going through changes

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.

Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

La musique avant toute chose.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

Did they practice looking suspicious in mirrors? Welcome to the United States. Don’t even think about chewing gum the wrong way.’ (Carlos)