I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

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.

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

Little losses amaze, great tame.

I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

My favorite topping is one that a lot of people don't like. I love anchovies.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write