Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

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.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

God's truth always agrees with itself.