A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.