They sounded really professional because they had two Vox AC 30 amplifiers. I also had an AC 30, so when you looked at it, three AC 30s, three Fenders - bloody hell, it must be a great band!

Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.

Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.

You will survive in any situation with hope.

This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case.

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.