I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

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

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

Were people to mingle only with those of like mind, every man would be an insulate being." Thomas Jefferson

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.

Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.