Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
Ozzy Osbourne
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
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.
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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 got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
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.
It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
What is the world coming to?
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 can't do anything in moderation.
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 couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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.
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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.
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 used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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!
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
