Ozzy Osbourne
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!Collection: Morning
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.Collection: Family
They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.Collection: Intelligence
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?Collection: Music
Rock music is not meant to be perfect.Collection: Music
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.
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 cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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 can't do anything in moderation.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
What is the world coming to?
I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
There are no unachievable goals.Collection: Goal
Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.Collection: Hate
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.Collection: Music
You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.Collection: Inspirational
If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.Collection: Mistake
People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.Collection: People
I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.Collection: Past
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.Collection: Morning
I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.Collection: Training
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.Collection: Jesus
Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Gone
I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.Collection: Yesterday
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.Collection: Scared
You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll. It's here to stayCollection: Rocks
You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.Collection: Trying
My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.Collection: Son
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.Collection: Sleep
The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.Collection: Kings
If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.Collection: Enemy