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!
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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.
It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
Don’t ask me, I don’t know.
When you’re young, you’re stupid. You do silly things.
Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I’m stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
There is something f-king unbelievable about seeing all of the fans go crazy and chanting ‘Ozzy!’ I would pay to see them...
And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I’d pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f – – up.
I used to smoke cigarettes, smoke dope, do smack, every f – – thing. First, I couldn’t function without it. Then I couldn’t do anything with or without it. Then I thought, “This is the end of the line for my fun days.”
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.
None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don’t want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.
I’ve been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.
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.
If I go out with a jacket and a pair of trousers that my wife doesn’t like, you can bet your ass it ain’t in my wardrobe the following day. I say that it gets lost in the sky.
I’m not a big fan of TV. It’s an unavoidable situation being Ozzy Osbourne, people want you to go on chat shows, and I’m not good at it. I don’t feel comfortable doing it.
Black Sabbath wasn’t like the Bon Jovis of the time. We were just a bunch of guys that were against the grain of society. And we sung about things that people thought back then.
I’m not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can’t do that, you know. It’s too much to handle.
People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven’t got stage fright, then I’m going to be comfortable within myself, and then something – I’ve always been that way and so I’m fighting to get away from that fear.
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.