There are no indisputable truths.

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.

You must know what to do with your time if you must become great in this life. You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.