I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

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.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

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

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.