Ozzy Osbourne Quotes
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Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.
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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.
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There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.
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I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
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It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
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It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
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The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.
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I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.
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Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?
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With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.
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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.
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It's just human nature - isn't it? - to be more attracted to something that's taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, 'Don't do drugs,' you wanna do drugs. That's why I've always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the fucking things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it, y'know?
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I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.
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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.
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I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.
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Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
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Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.
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Destiny planned out, I don't need no hand out.
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To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.
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I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.
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I know that I'm here – I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.
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There are no invisible seams.
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The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.
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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.