God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

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 have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .