I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

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.

As for the journey of life

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.