Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

There are no unwinnable wars.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

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

A Christian man is a man who is within himself, who puts out good vibes.

I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

That night, at God knows what hour, Bill phoned me up and shouted, 'Ozzy, I think my house is haunted!' 'Sell tickets then,' I told him, and put the phone down.

I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad.

It had a huge impact on me, 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.

Hating people isn't a productive way of living. So what's the point in hating anyone? There's enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

I keep hearing this fucking thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

My father always said I would do something big one day. 'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

I'm a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don't need training – they just are.

You learn who your friends are when the shit hits the fan.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now.

When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

They said I would never write this book. Well, f**k 'em – 'cos here it is. All I have to do now is remember something... Bollocks. I can't remember anything.

It's sad, y'know, what money does to people.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.