I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

What is the world coming to?

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I can't do anything in moderation.

I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

When youre young youre stupid. You do silly things.

Being sober on a bus is like totally different than being drunk on a bus.

A Christian man is a man who is within himself who puts out good vibes.

Whats the future of mankind How do I know I got left behind.

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stay

Every shopaholic needs an accomplice.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.