I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

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.

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.

One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.