I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

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

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect."

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

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