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

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.

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.

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

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

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

I pictured her tragically

Think honestly.Think humbly.Think honorably.Think happily.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.