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

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.

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.

Every day you try to get better.

Nothing Makes Me Feel Happier Than Seeing A Child Smile From Happiness.

He was afraid to pick up the baby. If he touched it, it might bond with him or something. Or he might leave fingerprints all over it.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

A friend who understands your tears is much more valuable than a lot of friends who only know your smile.