In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.

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.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

We need a great president.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.

When I am willing, all sound is available to me.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

No one ever dies an atheist.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.