There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

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.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

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

When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.