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've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

Rock and roll is my religion.

The rest of the guys in Sabbath became boring old farts, and there I was, this crazy guy, still into wrecking hotel rooms and having parties.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.