 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. |
| It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me. |
| 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. |
| It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world. |
| Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though! |
| 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. |
| Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second. |
| The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work. |
| The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. |
| I never try and sound like Sabbath. |
| 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. |
| Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. |
| I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that. |
| 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. |
| I would not want to write something about something I do not think about. |
| However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. |
| 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! |
| When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant. |
| I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. |
| 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. |
