I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

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

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Anger is an indication of pain and pain is an indication of sadness that grows inward and creates a lot of discomfort.

An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).

The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading.