The Jesus freaks were the worst. While the ‘Suicide Solution’ case was going through the courts they followed me around everywhere. They would picket my shows with signs that read, ‘The Anti-Christ Is Here’. And they’d always be chanting: ‘Put Satan behind you! Put Jesus

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I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

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guitar music kids

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

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how-to-love hate too-late

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

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crazy missing funny

Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

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scared could-have-been sometimes

I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober.

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alcohol morning mean

When you’re in love, it’s not just about the messing around in the sack, it’s about how empty you feel when they’re gone.

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empty gone feels

I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol… there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

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swimming dna sleep

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

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good-things mistake laughing

My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

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oxycontin years son

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

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journey stupid mistake

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

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gun war people

My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.'

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beer men father

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about.

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mtv talking thinking

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

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military stupid war

You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.

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wings inspirational believe

I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and I can't relive yesterday but I live in the moment if I can.

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tomorrow yesterday live-in-the-moment

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

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who-your-friends-are fans

I'm not a musician - I'm a ham.

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ham musician

Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I’ve never been back to his graveside. I’d like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side.

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flower views years

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

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hate people world