With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

But the thing with us was, we didn’t really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.