Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

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.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.