“I have a saying. ‘Never judge a book by its cover’. I say that because I don’t even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.”

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

Of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

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

I’ve been a lot of other things over the years, which we don’t really want to talk about.

L.A.’s not a good place to grow old.

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

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don’t bite off more than you can chew. It’s a dangerous world.

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?

I’m dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I’ve got something like a hereditary tremor.

I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

I couldn’t be a royal. It’s like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing.

I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

God’s canopy is over you and will cover you at all times, preserving you from evil.

The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.

The soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers – extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

But even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

Having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.