It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

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.

How many geniuses are we putting to sleep today and where would our world be now, if the age of pill popping, mind numbing control existed during the times of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Einstein?

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my path is going to go.

Beat it to death if it succeeds.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Distance makes everything beautiful.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.