Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

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.

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

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.

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.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.