I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus in front of you!’ One time, I made my own sign – a smiley face with the words ‘Have a Nice Day’ – and went out and joined them. They didn’t even notice. Then, just as the gig was about to start, I put down the sign, said, ‘See ya, guys,’ and went back to my dressing room.
I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.
The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is self-destructive. Drinking is self-destructive. Losing your temper and yelling at people is wrong. Lying is wrong. Cheating is wrong. Stealing is wrong. But people do that stuff all the time. Soon as I figure out how to be a perfect human being, then I'm qualified to go lecture other people about how they live their lives.
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.