Quotes from Bill Ward

I love Black Sabbath's music.

I don't want to ride on Sabbath's coattails in order to encourage my own opportunities.

I have been blessed with musical visions and the ability to harness them.

When I'm working on new ideas, musically much of what's played is guided by a visual appearance or shape.

Since my early childhood, I've played drums in visuals as well as sound.

All the things that we had initiated in the first few albums still existed on 'Technical Ecstasy.' The band had not lost any of its vitality.

Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

Things haven't always worked out how I want them to, but the eventuality of being honest is a daily gift.

I'm a big fan of DevilDriver and I have been since they first started.

Without the jazz influence, the Black Sabbath drumming would be very different.

You can't play a backbeat in Black Sabbath. You can if you want to; it's going to ruin the song.

Black Sabbath has always been noncompliant.

I'm playing jazz throughout the song 'Black Sabbath.' That's what it is there. I mean, I'm moving some other things around, but that is forever in there.

If you believe in a higher power or if you believe in God, then I would suggest that you go to God and see if you can find some solutions. If you don't believe in God, then try to be as honest with yourself as you possibly can... When I've chosen the light of God or self-honesty, my own misery has brought me to a solution.

I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life.

It's that mindset we have where we think we are indestructible. I know at least I went through that phase, where everything was excessive! Like if I drove a fast car I'd just have to take it to 130 miles per hour or more, you know!

I wanna play hard rock. I wanna play loud drums.

Once I started to get some of the things I'd always craved, I still found myself incredibly unhappy. It was never enough. A lot of that stems from being real, real insecure, wanting more and hoping that will fix the insecurity.

When I think about Oz, when he was a teenager, I'm just reminded of what an excellent blues voice he had. He had a large voice. When we did the Aynsley Dunbar song 'Warning' and 'Black Sabbath,' his voice is so right. It's really round, and it has that pain from within in his voice.

Every year when I get my health checks they come out better and better.

Those chords on 'You Won't Change Me' are huge.

I write poems.

As far as I'm concerned, the book's never closed with Sabbath!

I would never, ever, ever commit to taking on any type of live commitment, or studio commitment, if I knew there was something going on inside of me which could stop me from doing it.