If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Every day you try to get better.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.