I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

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."

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

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.'

Nobody tells me f-k all!

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.