I retired once but you've got to have something to retire to and I don't want to do anything. My job is like a well paid hobby, I mean not a hobby but I'm not lining up every morning at the bus queue to go to work. I'm very lucky.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

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.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.