You never toot your own horn.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.

Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.