"The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal."

"I would not want to write something about something I do not think about."

"It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world."

"Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling."

"Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!"

"The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work."

"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started."

"I never try and sound like Sabbath."

"To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge."

"However long the song is was how long it took us to write it."

"It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me."

"I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that."

"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."

"We were into Hendrix and Cream, who were like the heaviest bands around at that time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else!"

"I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people."

"What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence."

"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."

"I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now."

"Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."

"It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me."

"To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier."

"If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling."

"Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death."

"I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me."

"I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in."