It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

Growing up, I knew where the world ended. I could see it, at the horizon, where the sky touched the corn. My life was bounded and known. I *knew* the edges of the world. And then I went to college.

A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.