I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

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

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.

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.'