Since day one my thing has always been to play the music

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Life is not about reality. It is about how you perceive it.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

When I die, nobody cry at my funeral, in fact let's all have a party; I've lived the life of ten men. I lived all my dreams and more.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.