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

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.

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

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!