I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.