As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

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'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.

The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.