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

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.

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.