Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
You never toot your own horn.
We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
Ozzy has dyslexia.
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
I'm a good Catholic boy.
