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

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

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

The only person you should compete with is you.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child, " I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

In life, never talk about problems. Talk about solutions.

Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.