What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.

I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

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.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started