My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

Tony Iommi - the undisputed king of demonic heavy rock riffs. In this area, no one had never surpassed him.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

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

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

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