I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

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.

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.