It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

When in doubt, just take the next small step

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.