One thing that does confuse me, is that there are more religions in this world than ever, yet there's only sup­posed to be one God.

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

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

There are no invisible seams.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'