I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation

The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.