During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.

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

I never try and sound like Sabbath.

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

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

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.

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