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've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.

It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had in my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal.

Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.