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

To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.

There are no unsavable souls.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.