I'll kind of tend to beat myself up because I just want it to sound better than better.

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.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.