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

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.

I don’t think so. Beth didn’t get any presents.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.