I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing. . . to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.
Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.
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.
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.