The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.
I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.
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.
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.
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. '
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it's as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.