Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

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'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think … Satan.

We were very pleased to have the opportunity to come to Israel and visit the holy sites in the Old City.