Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

To me, Sabbath was always just a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

It's a lonelything, protecting a breakable heart

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.