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

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.

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

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

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

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.