“MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.”

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

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?

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

I had to do another couple of albums about this idiot. Then I had to play in front of 37 people. It was horrible. I was crying. I was freaked out.

We just did three albums in a row of shaking our fists in the air and yelling about George W.Bush and the government.

The “Highway 61” album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I’m not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.