Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

The first question that comes out of everybody's mouth, 'Did you bite the head off a bat?' And I did, so, next.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

Won't you ride my white horse?

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.