Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.

I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.

If you go out for a drink, you go out for a drink. You don't think, 'I'll have a few pints. I'll piss up this shrine.'

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

Rock and roll is my religion.

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

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

I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

Don't ask me, I don't know

I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?

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

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

There are no invisible seams.

There are no unwinnable wars.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'

People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"

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

If you don't know what sex is before you're 21 you're going to have a problem and should go to your psychiatrist.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung filled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.

Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?

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

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

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

I hated school. Hated it.

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

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.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I’m fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn’t make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I’m a Nazi, how come I married a woman who’s half Jewish?

I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?