Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
I love soccer. That's all I ever watch. I'll watch it all day if I can. But I'm too bloody old to play now.
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
I never try and sound like Sabbath.
To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.