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

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.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

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.

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

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.

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.