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.'

Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

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

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

Sex isn't the priority anymore, now I'm 65. But it still goes on. I want it and she doesn't, same as ever.