“I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.”

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!

When you’re young, you’re stupid. You do silly things.

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.

What is the world coming to?

I’m about caring, I’m about people, and I’m about entertaining people. I’m a family man. A husband. A father.

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.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

There is nothing that our God cannot do. He will do everything if you will dare to believe.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?

The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.