It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me.

Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.