Ozzy Osbourne
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.Collection: Musician
I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.Collection: Halloween
With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.Collection: Bumps
The road to nowhere leads to me.Collection: Low Self Esteem
I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.Collection: Careers
I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.Collection: Couple
The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.Collection: People
There are no impossible dreams.Collection: Dream
You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.Collection: Dragons
Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.Collection: Flower
In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.Collection: Jobs
Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.Collection: Growing Up
I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.Collection: Thinking
I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”Collection: Thinking
Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.Collection: Children
They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k ’em – ’cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can’t remember anything.Collection: Book
Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.Collection: Men
I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.Collection: Dream
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.Collection: Mother
I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.Collection: Wake Up
I don't want to change the world, I don't want the world to change me.Collection: World
I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.Collection: Good Luck
It was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had in my life to meet Paul McCartney. It was phenomenal.Collection: Phenomenal
The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.Collection: Hero
Love and peace to everyone. May your God go with you.Collection: May
I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.Collection: People
Dogs smoke in France.Collection: Dog
The bike went up in the air and landed on my back. It broke my neck, smashed my collarbone and splinters of bone severed my main artery. My lung filled up with blood. I severed my nerves and to this day I have no feeling there.Collection: Air
My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.Collection: Heart
I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.Collection: Fun
Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.Collection: Execution
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.Collection: Retirement
Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.Collection: Queens
I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.Collection: Drug
I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.Collection: Sports
I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.Collection: Believe
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"Collection: Writing
Life's not all about money.Collection: Life
Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.Collection: Pressure
I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?Collection: Fun
For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.Collection: Years
My son Jack once said to me, 'Dad, do you think people are laughing with you or at you?' And I said, 'I don't care as long as they're laughing.'Collection: Dad
Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.Collection: Running
I didn't really like the taste of booze. I liked the effect it did on me. But I can't say I savored a glass full of Chablis Chablis 1932. I drank whatever s - - was in front of me and got me buzzed.Collection: Glasses
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm inCollection: Morning
There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.Collection: Past
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'Collection: Tattoo
Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.Collection: Believe