Quotes from Bill Ward

In the recovery of my life, I've been taught to be more accountable. Sometimes I fail miserably, but I try every day to be accountable: as a musician, to my wife, to my children, as a father, as a human being.

I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.

I'm hoping I can get in a position where I'm self-supporting from my own work.

When you love somebody, and they start saying things that are not true and really hurt, you have to remove the love.

Metallica's 'black' album, when I heard that and I heard Lars' playing, and I just was, like, you know, 'Wow! Something really neat's been accomplished here.'

The way I play the drums, it's becoming tougher as I get older.

Touring is completely different to me than being in the studio.

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time that I was about five or six years old, all the music that I ever heard was jazz and it was American jazz, and it was big-band jazz, to be more defined.

I have no choice but to be transparent. I have to be, in order for me to live.

I don't like misleading people, and I like to be honest and transparent.

I like jamming to rap.

Sweet Leaf' and 'Iron Man' were the rallying points for all the young men coming back from Vietnam.

It's hard to be a hungry young man when you're not hungry anymore. We were very hungry young men when we wrote 'Black Sabbath' and when we wrote 'War Pigs.'

I really enjoyed playing drums on 'Born Again.' It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there about being sober.

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

I don't know about all this 'speed metal' and everything... It's all metal to me.

I based my tuning on Gene Krupa, Buddy and Joe Morello. I knew how I wanted the drums to sound and we did the best we could with a beat up Ludwig kit. I spent a lot of time around drummers learning how to get sound. I knew the sound I was after and what would work for what we were playing.

I heard about twenty, twenty-four bars of one track - one track - on '13,' and I listened to it, and I just didn't like it at all; I just didn't like it. And I have that right not to like it.

It's really important that we communally share what's going on with each other... Otherwise, we're going to be walking around in a very sorrowful place.

I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

I... remember taking all kinds of risks and at the time being oblivious to danger and really thinking back then how I could really do anything that I wanted.

I made the decision back in 1984 to never play with Black Sabbath unless it was the original line-up. And I stuck to it for quite a long time. A lot of that was about honoring Ozzy.

In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn't like all the devilish boohoo that went with it, to tell you the truth. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. Acting up to that, I felt quite dishonest.