Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.

There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.