Ozzy Osbourne Quotes

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn`t want to see my kids do the same thing.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

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!

What is the world coming to?

What is this? It`s music to get a brain seizure by.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

They say military have the so-called `secret intelligence` -- this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I`ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

`I suppose Americans get a kick out of watching a crazy Brit family like us make complete fools of ourselves every week.`

`One night in Hamburg, I painted my face purple, and didn`t realise it was indelible. So I had to walk around Hamburg for the next three days with a purple head!`

Recalling an LSD trip: "There were these horses in a field. They were talking to me."

`It wasn`t as if I had a list, I didn`t have a resumé saying Tuesday - have a pint, strangle the wife, Wednesday - get bail.`

`One day, my son and I were arguing and he said: "Do you mind if people laugh with you, or at you?" And I said I didn`t give a shit, so long as they were laughing. But really, I was thinking, I wouldn`t like to know for a fact that they`re laughing at me.`

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

`I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy`s dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I`ve always sold out, so who`s saying it`s all over?`

`The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!`

(Black) Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

On Sharon Osbourne`s colon cancer diagnosis: `I freaked out. She`s the love of my life, and she`s also, like, the controller. I couldn`t sleep with her for nine months because I was scared of waking up and she`d died in the night.`

I`m a very simple man. You`ve got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off...and the nightmare continues.

`I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol.`

`People thought (`_The Osbournes_`) was scripted but it wasn`t. They`d sit there with five cameras pointing in all directions just for you to slip on a dog turd or something.`

(On kicking drugs and alcohol for the first time) "All I have to say is this. Sobriety F***ing Sucks!

I couldn`t be a royal. It`s like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

`This has all been such an amazing journey for me. I can vividly remember sitting on the step of my house in Aston, just tripping about what it would be like to be a Beatle. And then, here I am at 58, and I`m at (Elton John)`s party. All these megastars are there, Paul McCartney or whatever. And there`s me with them, standing with all these people I used to admire. It`s like I`ve been in the music industry for 30, 40 years, and it`s just been incredible really.`

Viagra`s a great sleeping drug. I take Viagra, and Sharon goes right to sleep.

LA`s not a good place to grow old. It`s a Paris Hilton-getting-fucked-up-the-arse kind of town . . . a town full of ambulance chasers.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

A life of booze, drugs and unprotected sex is only going to f*** you up! I mean, look at me!

I`ll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

Sometimes I think my whole career and life has only been about a bloody Bat!

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

The only black magic Sabbath ever got into was a box of chocolates.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most

`I knew I was in trouble when I couldn`t make it offstage quick enough to get whatever variety of shit I was tipping down me. I thought to myself: There are people working in gas stations, and all these menial jobs, to put money aside to see the Ozzfest, and I`m more interested in going back to the hotel, and doing a bag of white powder, or whatever shit it is I`m on.`