I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

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

..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.

One becomes Parmatma (absolute supreme self) if he comes into the True Self even for a fraction of time.

The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.