The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

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.

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

Growth happens slowly, slow down today enjoy life without been in hurry

You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.