I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

You may be gone but you're never over.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.

When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.