I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.